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• Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost
  Author: Robert Frost Quotes

  Keywords: gets :: in :: is :: lost :: poetry :: translation :: what

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• Acting is no near translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself. - her senior yearbook quote Judith Light
  Author: Judith Light Quotes

  Keywords: abstraction :: acting :: from :: her :: is :: it :: itself :: life :: near :: no :: or :: quote :: senior :: translation :: yearbook

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• What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That`s what their substance is. Jonathan Miller
  Author: Jonathan Miller Quotes

  Keywords: are :: characters :: does :: in :: interesting :: is :: it :: its :: literature :: made :: makes :: not :: novel :: of :: out :: sentences :: substance :: survive :: that :: the :: their :: translation :: what

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• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. Alex Garwood
  Author: Alex Garwood Quotes

  Keywords: best :: excellent :: good :: in :: is :: lost :: or :: precisely :: the :: translation :: what

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• Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. Andrew Speedy
  Author: Andrew Speedy Quotes

  Keywords: beautiful :: certainly :: faithful :: if :: is :: it :: like :: most :: not :: translation :: woman

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• Translation is at best an echo. Alex Langwenya
  Author: Alex Langwenya Quotes

  Keywords: an :: at :: best :: echo :: is :: translation

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• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will. Amy Popp
  Author: Amy Popp Quotes

  Keywords: and :: demand :: democracy :: european :: for :: help :: in :: into :: needs :: of :: political :: the :: to :: translation :: union :: us :: will

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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. Leonard Cohen
  Author: Leonard Cohen Quotes

  Keywords: all :: asking :: barely :: child :: for :: has :: he :: himself :: in :: into :: is :: language :: man :: mastered :: prayer :: there :: translates :: translation

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• Pound`s translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. Robert Morgan
  Author: Robert Morgan Quotes

  Keywords: bit :: chinese :: eliot :: important :: later :: little :: maybe :: most :: of :: poetry :: pound :: read :: the :: thing :: translation :: was

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• Jorge says, stepping away from the phone to practice his saxophone during the translation. ``But the first time I listened to his music, I had this feeling he was doing something very contemporary. Andy Trotter
  Author: Andy Trotter Quotes

  Keywords: away :: but :: contemporary :: doing :: during :: feeling :: first :: from :: had :: he :: his :: jorge :: listened :: music :: phone :: practice :: saxophone :: says :: something :: stepping :: the :: this :: time :: to :: translation :: very :: was

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• If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Amy Shaw
  Author: Amy Shaw Quotes

  Keywords: also :: dream :: if :: is :: life :: of :: the :: translation :: waking

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• If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Amy Shaw
  Author: Amy Shaw Quotes

  Keywords: also :: dream :: if :: is :: life :: of :: the :: translation :: waking

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• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster
  Author: Paul Auster Quotes

  Keywords: always :: and :: as :: bread :: contemporary :: earn :: food :: for :: french :: in :: interested :: into :: kind :: money :: my :: of :: on :: out :: own :: pay :: poetry :: poets :: put :: sideline :: sort :: spilled :: table :: that :: the :: to :: translating :: translation :: was :: way :: work

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• I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. Robert Morgan
  Author: Robert Morgan Quotes

  Keywords: also :: an :: and :: background :: came :: chinese :: did :: from :: have :: in :: interest :: japanese :: literary :: mathematics :: not :: poetry :: sciences :: the :: through :: to :: translation :: very

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• I can show you a place where you might feel more comfortable,?? he said. Translation: the Black Panther
  Author: Black Panther Quotes

  Keywords: can :: comfortable :: feel :: he :: might :: more :: place :: said :: show :: the :: translation :: where :: you

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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. Alexander Silbiger
  Author: Alexander Silbiger Quotes

  Keywords: abstraction :: arts :: beautiful :: because :: dancing :: from :: is :: it :: itself :: life :: loftiest :: mere :: most :: moving :: no :: of :: or :: the :: translation

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