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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.»
«Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.»
«Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.»
«Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.»
«A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.»
«I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.»
«Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.»
«I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.»
«Poetry is what gets lost in translation.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: translation, translations

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