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6 quotesThe original is unfaithful to the translation.
Originality
Jorge Luis Borges
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Action
Dante Alighieri
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Translation
Sir John Denham
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Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Translation
Ezra Pound
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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
Translation
Leonardo Sciascia
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun