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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.


Robert Morgan


#background #came #chinese #did #i

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


#giving #like #looking #need #often

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.


John Green


#dutch #love #translation #beauty

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


Recep Tayyip Erdogan


#democracy #european #european union #help #into

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.


Martin C. Smith


#different #different way #done #fascinating #passage

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.


George Strait


#before #cool #got #i #i love

Translation is at best an echo.


George Borrow


#echo #translation

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.


Tim Berners Lee


#browse #countries #different #different countries #enough

The original is unfaithful to the translation.


Jorge Luis Borges


#translation #unfaithful

it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.


Henry Gratton Doyle


#don-quixote #great-novels-in-translation #the-art-of-translation #translation #translations






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