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For ages, people have been coming up with beautiful quotes in reference to the art of translation and language in general. We've picked 30 of them to share with you. Enjoy!
How many beautiful quotes about language and translation do you know? It’s likely you’ve come across at least a few. However, it definitely won’t hurt to learn several more, especially if you plan on including them in your marketing strategy.
In this article, we’ve selected a number of inspiring quotes about language and translation. We hope you’ll enjoy them!
INSPIRING QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
— Joan Didion
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
— Günter Grass
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
— Zadie Smith
A different language is a different vision of life.— Federico Fellini
Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving.
— Anna Rusconi
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery.
— Amy Chua
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
— Anthony Burgess
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
— Italo Calvino
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
— William Safire
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
— Leonardo Sciascia
Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.— George Steiner
A translator is a reader, an interpreter and a creator all in one.
— Bijay Kumar Das
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
— Nelson Mandela
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
— Seth Godin
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know.— Buffy Andrews
Language is wine upon the lips.
— Virginia Woolf
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
— Terry Pratchett
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.
— Jodi Picoult
Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious.
— Alan Moore
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
— Richard Bach
To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.— Chinese Proverb
With languages, you are at home anywhere.
— Edmund De Waal
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
— Charlemagne
Writers make national literature, while translators make universal literature.
— Jose Saramago
The translator is the author’s accomplice.
— Jorge Gonzalez Moore
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
— Melina Marchetta
