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