Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. – Sir John Denham
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton
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 (François-Marie Arouet)
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. – Boris Pasternak
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews
Celebrity culture, its everywhere, isnt it? Its reality TV, Big Brother. I didnt become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didnt want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? – Ryan Giggs
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. – Edward Jenner
