237 Quotes About Translation

Я знаю силу слов я знаю слов набатОни не те которым рукоплещут ложиОт слов таких срываются гробашагать четверкою своих дубовых ножек.I know the sway of words, I know their warningsThey’re not those applauded from the boxesFrom words such as these coffins break free Striding forth on their four oaken legs.

Whenever he's tried to dig out such secrets from her behind her mother's back, she has retreated like a tortoise into her child's shell. Children are quick to sense a threat. (From "Crows" by Mrinal Pande)

Where in the work of these people was love, the unmoving motor of all the stars, fixed point and vertex of the actions of men of real daring?

To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.

It is translation, more than speech itself, which provides incontrovertible evidence of the human capacity to think and to communicate thought. We should do more of it.

Translation is the consolation you get for not knowing the source language.

No opinions would be worth holding except by those who read works in the original.

Thou art imperishable. Thou art changeless reality. Thou art the source of life.

Translation means that a translator has picked one word above all the others: one winner, with all the finalists gone from the page forever. Translation always calls upon the translator to make a judgement call, and what the reader hears, then, is a judgement