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Tag Name "Translation" (176)

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Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
Eliot Weinberger
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Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.
Gregory Rabassa
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Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.
Lawrence Venuti
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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
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Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
Susan Sontag
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Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Anthony Burgess
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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
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Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
John Felstiner
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.
Peter Newmark
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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.
eL Seed
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
Ashok K. Banker
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We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
Ernst Haas
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All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Benjamin Jowett
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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
Etgar Keret
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
Blaise Pascal
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So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.
Frank Zappa
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Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.
Caryl Churchill
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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
George Steiner
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If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
Charles Negre
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I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did a lot of literary translation in college. Translation is an art. But for sure writing has always been a part of how I think through my ideas.
Chitra Ganesh
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