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Quote by Edith Hamilton
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the

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

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

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A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton

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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. – Leonardo Sciascia

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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 (François-Marie Arouet)

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. – Sir John Denham

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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. – Virginia Woolf

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