Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The original is unfaithful to the translation."
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Martin Luther
Theologian
"I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue."
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"Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning."
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"When we learn to speak, we learn to translate."
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"ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart."
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"Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing."
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"It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?"
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."
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