237 Quotes About Translation

A link: one who could speak aloud the perceptions of the subconscious. To "speak" that tongue it to act. To do a new thing. To change or to be changed, radically, from the root. For the root is the dream.

No I do not like blaming. Because for me it's enoughif someone is other than bad—not too much out of hand,conscious at least of the justice that helps the city,a healthy man. No I shall notlay blame. Because foolsare a species that never ends.All things, you know, are beautiful with whichugly things are not mixed.

Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in translation technology. He goes on to observe that many are so largely unenthusiastic about it - with attitudes lying somewhere between skeptical and scathing - their very ignorance seeming to contribute to their fear that their jobs will be threatened by this technology.

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

Translation is the art of failure.

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Reading is the first challenge of translation. Reading, understanding and making a decision on what you're read is crucial to working with text

Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.

Translation is the opposite of empire