X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Translations" (222)

Page 9 of 10
Filter & Style
Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.
Joan Larkin
Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.
Cate Marvin
Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.
Ann Goldstein
Image
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
El-P
Image
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late live today. Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say Today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.
Martial
Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
Paul Gauguin
Image
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Benjamin Jowett
Image
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.
Ruth Glick
Image
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
Rachel Vincent
Image
The sound of the rain needs no translation.
Alan Watts
Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Anthony Burgess
Image
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
Herbert Bayer
Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
Adam Morris
Image
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do that they do not just translate well because they have a flair for translation, but rather because, like other professionals, they have made a conscious effort to understand various aspects of their work.
Mona Baker
Image
A national language is a band of national union.
Noah Webster
Image
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
Suzy Kassem
Image
Hubble touches people. 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
Image
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)
Edgar Allan Poe
Image
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.
Roberta Gellis
Image
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
Image
Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
Lord Byron
Image
Sestrilla, hafelina Jue amourasestrilla Awou jue selaviena En patre jue Translation: Beloved one, little cat I love you for all time In this time And all others
Christine Feehan
Image
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Robert Heinecken
Previous
Next