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It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. — Brian Friel

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. — Gore Vidal

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase. — Richard Howard

That's the problem with translations," she added sadly. "You can never quite reproduce the flavor of the original. — Emily Croy Barker

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. — Henry David Thoreau

The translation called good has original value as a work of art. — Benedetto Croce

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. — Lydia Davis

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. — Charles Stross

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ... — Reginald Horace Blyth

In art as in life, some things need no translation. — Paula Vogel

The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press. — Sweyn Plowright

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point. — Dan Ariely

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time. — Lucas Leiva

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right. — Christian Hosoi

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation. — Walter Benjamin

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Poetry is what is gained in translation. — Joseph Brodsky

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

Poetry cannot be translation — Samuel Johnson

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mala hierba nunca muere. (Translations: Weeds never die. Bad grass never dies.) — Anonymous

Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level. — Ksenia Anske

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day. — Rabih Alameddine

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark

Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations — David Bellos

All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something — G. Willow Wilson

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart. — David Norton