TF Translations
Translating is producing analogous effects by different means.
Paul Valéry
He or she can pull a text to pieces, remove its skin,
cut it to the bone, follow each artery and vein
and thence fashion a new living being.
Alberto Manguel
Writers make national literature, while translators make universal literature.
Jose Saramago
Without translation,
we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.
George Steiner
Translating is always about making sacrifices;
however, nothing essential should be sacrificed.
Enrique Diez-Canedo
If the translator does his job as he should, he is a benefactor of humanity; otherwise he is a veritable public enemy.
Miguel Saenz
[Translation] may very probably be the most complex type of event yet produced in the evolution of the cosmos […].
Ivor A. Richards
Translation is one of the few human activities where the impossible occurs by principle.
Mariano Antolín Rato
The translator is the author’s accomplice.
Jorge Gonzalez Moore
…by nature, translation is an interpretation.
André Markowicz
If the translation respects the original, it may, and even should, be able to hold a dialog with it, face-to-face and hold its own.
Jean-Yves Masson
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language which is under the spell of another.
Walter Benjamin
The translator is a privileged writer who has the opportunity
to rewrite masterpieces in their own language.
Javier Marías
As an interpreter, you create nothing, for you are a mere sculpture.
Anxo Perez
Translating means having the honesty to stick to an allusive imperfection.
Michel Leiris
