Translation Quotes

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. - John Millington Synge

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation. - Clay Aiken

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. - Ezra Pound

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services. - Edward Sapir

A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience. - Charles Munch