Translation Quotes

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

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.

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

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

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.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.