#translation

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

#language #love #lovers #relationships #translation

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

#hell #inferno #stanley-lombardo-translation #love

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

#meaning #poetry #translation #imagination

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#love

So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors. ↗

— Amara Lakhous

#translation #love

Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#translation-theory #love

ته دومره بې مغزه ولې يې چې مخ دې دومره زښت ښائسته دې؟ چې سترګې دې دومره ځلانده دې جې زما درسته لعنتي دنیا رڼه کوي. ولې؟ ↗

— Pella Grace

#مینه-پښتو-pashto-translation #love

ته دومره بېمغزه ولې يې او مخ دې دومره رښت ښائسته دې؟ چې سترګې دې دومره ځلانده دې جې زما درسته لعنتي دنیا رڼه کوي. ولې؟ ↗

— Pella Grace

#pashto #مینه-پښتو-ژباړه-translation #love

Semua tahu, Sayang...agar nasib baik tetap langgeng, kerendahan hati harus selalu dipelihara. Tidak peduli keajaiban apa yang dihadiahkan hidup padamu, jangan pernah membual tentang itu. ↗

— Kavita Daswani

#translation #inspirational

The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#men