Quotes About Translating Poetry

#1. One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

Martin Luther

#2. It's ironic that as scientists that don't believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

Hiromu Arakawa

#3. I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Paul Auster

#4. Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.

George Muller

#5. The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied.

Angela Merkel

#6. When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

Red Tash

#7. Ultimately, it is
through concrete communication practices that participation is put into practice,
maintained, and evaluated.

George Cheney

#8. I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.

Julie Delpy

#9. I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.

Amy Hardie

#10. Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.

Norman Davies

#11. Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C.S. Lewis

#12. New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop.

Neil Postman

#13. Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

John Keegan

#14. Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

Johnny Carson

#15. I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

Dewitt Bodeen

#16. I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

#17. Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

James Buchan

#18. My affection for you is not my problem.

Ljupka Cvetanova