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Translation is the art of failure.
View quotes by Umberto Eco

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
View quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
View quotes by Robert Frost

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.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak

Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.
View quotes by Lord Caradon

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.
View quotes by Havelock Ellis



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