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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ↗

— Voltaire

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. ↗

— John Denham

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A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together. ↗

— Andrés Neuman

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Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power, supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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