32 Quotes About Translations

I would suggest that what the translator has to give up is the temptation to translate history by making sense of it, that is, by using an apologetic or apocalyptic discourse. What the translator fails to do is to erase the body, to erase the murder of the original.

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

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

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

I want my words to survive translation.

Poetry cannot be translation

All language is but a poor translation.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)