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
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
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
Sibel Edmonds
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
Cornelia Funke
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
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
Brian Ferneyhough
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
Jonathan Lethem
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
Utada Hikaru
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Robert Morgan
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
George Strait
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
Paul Auster
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Jung Chang
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Rene Magritte
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Robert Morgan
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
Leonardo Sciascia
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