Translations Quotes - Page 2

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

Poetry cannot be translation

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.