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A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.
— Gregory Rabassa
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
— Paul Goodman
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
All language is but a poor translation.
— Franz Kafka
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
— Nataly Kelly
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
— John Felstiner
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
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
— Vernor Vinge
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The original language of Christianity is translation.
— Lamin Sanneh
Mathematics to me is like a language I don't speak though I admire its literature in translation.
— David Quammen
The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.
— John Hookham Frere
Body language has no translation.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.
— Ken Liu
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
— Nataly Kelly
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
— George Steiner
Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.
— Christian Wiman
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Body language translation: hell yes, dipshit
— Shay Rucker
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
— Nataly Kelly
As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.
— Nataly Kelly
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
— Ernst Haas
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
— Nataly Kelly
Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
— Alan W. Watts
Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
— Christian Wiman
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
— Benjamin Jowett
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
— Etgar Keret
God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.
— Hilary Mantel
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
— Alexander P. De Seversky
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating