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Robert Frost
: Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Poetry is what is lost in translation.
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Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder, which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."
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Anaïs Nin :
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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John Donne :
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Leonardo Sciascia :
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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
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Walter Benjamin :
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson :
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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.
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Boris Pasternak :
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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.
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Sir John Denham :
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Ezra Pound :
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
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The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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