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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. Fredrik Bajer | top
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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. Edwin Booth | top
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Translation is at best an echo. George Borrow | top
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. Leonard Cohen | top
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? Cyril Connolly | top
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Translation is the art of failure. Umberto Eco | top
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost | top
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested. Utada Hikaru | top
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It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with. Joe Lando | top
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon | top
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Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. James Loeb | top
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Rene Magritte | top
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. Jonathan Miller | top
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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. Robert Morgan | top
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle. Gilbert Murray | top
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When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. Story Musgrave | top
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. Boris Pasternak | top
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. Ezra Pound | top
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. Manuel Puig | top
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A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services. Edward Sapir | top
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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. Leonardo Sciascia | top
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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. John Millington Synge | top
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The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. Guillermo del Toro | top
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. Voltaire | top
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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 | top
