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J. D. Salinger quote: "Translation is at best an echo."
Translation is at best an echo. J. D. Salinger
Yevgeny Yevtushenko quote: "Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not..."
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. Marilyn Hacker
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker
George Borrow quote: "Translation is at best an echo."
Translation is at best an echo. George Borrow
Umberto Eco quote: "Translation is the art of failure."
Translation is the art of failure. Umberto Eco
[I]f creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing: translating an old (known) abstraction (theme or thesis) through the medium of old fiction means (that is, characters, events or situations used before for that same purpose, that same translation) -- this is most of the popular trash; translating an old abstraction through new, original fiction means -- this is most of the good literature; creating a... Ayn Rand
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. Michael Cunningham
In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language. William Golding
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. W. H. Auden
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatabl? More..."
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatabl? More briefly? a word is translatable, its sound is not. Marina Tsvetaeva
But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana. That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's exactly right. Don DeLillo
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;... John Donne
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
Voltaire quote: "It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate..."
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. Voltaire

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