Translation Quotes

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.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

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.