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He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
— Hayim Nahman Bialik
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
— Md. Ziaul Haque
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
— Laurence J. Peter
He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.
— Terry Pratchett
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
— Virginia Woolf
Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.
— Rabih Alameddine
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[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.
— Sachin Kundalkar
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway - silently, suddenly.
— You Jin
In art as in life, some things need no translation.
— Paula Vogel
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will work for kings, not unimportant people.
— ISV Foundation Committee On Translation
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
— Amisha Patel
The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents.
— Anita Diamant
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
— Robert Frost
Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even works written in non-Western languages.
— Minae Mizumura
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
— Siri Hustvedt
"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.
— Emmanuelle Bercot
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
— Paul Gauguin
The magic gets lost in translation.
— Richard Roeper
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
— Laura Marling
They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves.
— Christina Westover
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
— Terry Teachout
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
— Robert Frost
Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration.
— Brian McGreevy
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
— Woodrow Wilson
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
— Joseph Brodsky
They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team.
— Richard K. Morgan
Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
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
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
— Charles Negre
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
— Etgar Keret
Where in the work of these people was love, the unmoving motor of all the stars, fixed point and vertex of the actions of men of real daring?
— Daniel Saldana Paris
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
Mathematics to me is like a language I don't speak though I admire its literature in translation.
— David Quammen
It suffered and died in translation.
— Joanne Greenberg
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
— Marjane Satrapi
I've wanted so many things in life," he says softly, "but you're the one that has meant the most to me."Translation: I love you. — Krista Ritchie
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
— Pharrell Williams
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
— Marcel Proust
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
— Evan Osnos
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
— Christopher Paolini
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
— Jonathan Lethem
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
— William H Gass
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
— Nataly Kelly
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
— Ashok K. Banker
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
