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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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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copying, paintings, rewarding, translate, translation, translations, very much, very much like
«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.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Art,
Dancing,
Life
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abstraction, arts, Beautiful Life, dancing, loftier, loftiest, mere, moving, translation, translations
«Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.»
«Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.»
«Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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Prayer
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barely, mastered, translates, translation, translations
«A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.»
«I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
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All of Us, Buddha, gone, in all, Jesus, Mohammed, old man, sky, the Buddha, translations
«Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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hallmark, inessential, intends, translation, translations, transmit, transmitting
«I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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broad, hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, insight, Real Book, sentiment, translatable, translations
«Poetry is what gets lost in translation.»
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