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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost
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Acting is no near translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself. - her senior yearbook quote
Judith Light
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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
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Alex Garwood
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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
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Translation is at best an echo.
Alex Langwenya
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Amy Shaw
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Amy Shaw
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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
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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
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I can show you a place where you might feel more comfortable,?? he said. Translation: the
Black Panther
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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
