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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Nowadays we are fond of literal translations...That would have seemed a crime to translators in ages past...They wanted to prove that the vernacular was as capable of a great poem as the original. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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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

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It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with. ↗

— Joe Lando

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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

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