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«As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.»
«Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.»
«Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.»
«Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.»
«If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.»
Author: Rene Magritte | Keywords: translation, waking
«Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.»
«Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?»
«By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Enoch, testimony, translation
«If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire»
«Poetry is what gets lost in translation.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: translation, translations