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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
— Iris Murdoch
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
— Robert Fitzgerald
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
— Md. Ziaul Haque
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
— Ronnie Milsap
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
— Marilyn Hacker
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
— Simone Muench
Translating is writing.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
— Allan Gregg
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
— James Buchan
We're translating the Kama Sutra, Barrons said, with interactive aids.
— Karen Marie Moning
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.
— Terry Tempest Williams
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
— Paul Auster
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
— Pat Metheny
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
— Elizabeth McCracken
There exists a single complete copy, is written in Annaren, the principal language spoken in Annar. In translating
— Alison Croggon
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.
— David Bellos
Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.
— Ken Liu
Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.
— Damon Albarn
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person.
— Hilary Mantel
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
— Nancy Mitford
I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.
— Ariel Rechtshaid
Some attempts at translating from one language into another one can be pretty funny if the translators don't know what they're doing.
— Lori Peckham
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
— Marianne Wiggins
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
— J.K. Rowling
Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.
— Norman Davies
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
— Howard Rheingold
Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
— Anthony Burgess
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.
— John Fowles
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
