The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
Guillermo del Toro

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
Marilyn Hacker

Translation is at best an echo.
George Borrow

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
Marilyn Hacker

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
Jonathan Miller

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
Story Musgrave

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
Gilbert Murray