Translations Quotes

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

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

The original language of Christianity is translation.

Translation is at best an echo.

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

Translation is the art of failure.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

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

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

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

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

I want my words to survive translation.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

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