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«Translation is at best an echo.»
Author: George Borrow | Keywords: at best, echo, translation, translations
«What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.»
Author: Jonathan Miller (Actor, Film Director, Producer) | Keywords: characters, Characters in, literature, novel, sentences, substance, The characters, translation, translations
«To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.»
Author: Paul Goodman | Keywords: adjust, artistically, author, creatively, imitation, molding, moldings, nuance, nuances, piecemeal, retreat, rhythm, sentences, simpler, tenor, Tenors, thought process, translate, translation, translations
«True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation»
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Editor, Poet, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: paraphrase, paraphrases, Selecting, selects, translation, translations, verbatim
«The original is unfaithful to the translation.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: translation, translations, unfaithful
«Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: indeed, kills, letter, literal, Makers, rendering, The Letter, The Makers, The Spirit, translations, weaken, weakening, woe
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