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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.”
Havelock Ellis quotes (British psychologist and author 1859-1939)
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“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quotes (American short-story Writer, Poet and Editor. 1836-1907)
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“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”
John Denham quotes

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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 quotes (English Actor, Producer and Film Director medical doctor, and man of letters. b.1934)

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“Translation is at best an echo.”
George Borrow quotes
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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 quotes (Canadian folk Singer, Song Writer, Poet and Novelist. b.1934)
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“To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.”
Paul Goodman quotes (American poet, 1911-1972)
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“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.”
Boris Pasternak quotes (Russian poet, 1890-1960)

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“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
Jorge Luis Borges quotes (Argentinian Poet and Essayist, 1899-1986)
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translation synonyms: rendered, rendering, renders, transformation, transformations, version, versions.

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