"The original is unfaithful to the translation."
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"Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning."
"When we learn to speak, we learn to translate."
"ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart."
"Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing."
"It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?"
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."