#translator

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. ↗

— John Donne

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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#publishers #rush #translators #tread #where

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#always #approve #conversations #english #example

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#central #chinese #completely #different #fluently

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#does #doing #myself #particular #performer

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth? ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying. ↗

— David M. Brown

#flying #foot #good #guys #having