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" Quotes and Sayings About translation

Translation is the art of failure.

Art Failure The Translation
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Gets Lost Poetry Translation
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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.

Believe Buddha Call God
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Also Different Human Metaphor
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

Ally Borders Country He
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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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.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Translation Words Making Intelligible
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Great age Literature Translations
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world

Art Refining Materials World
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Original Unfaithful Translation
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