Quotes with translations

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

  ― Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information - hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

  ― Walter Benjamin
  German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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• 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.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• translations
• transmitting
• translatable
• inessential
• sentiment
• rendering

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