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From Translation
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all science had
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its offspring.
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--Giordano Bruno
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(quoted by John Florio, 1603)
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...translating from one
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language into another...is
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like gazing at a
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Flemish tapestry with
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the wrong side out:
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even though the figures
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are visible, they are
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full of threads that
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obscure the view and
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are not bright and
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smooth as when seen
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from the other side.
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--Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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That servile path thou nobly
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dost decline
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Of tracing word by word, and
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line by line.
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These are the labour'd births
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of slavish brains,
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Not the effects of Poetry,
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but pains...
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--John Denham, 1643
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Poet, Translator, Playwright
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If a man should
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undertake to translate
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Pindar word for word,
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it would be thought
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that one Mad man
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had translated
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another...
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--Abraham Cowley, 1656
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If Virgil must needs
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speak English, it were
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fit he should speak it
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not only as a man
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of this Nation but
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as a man of this Age.
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--John Denham, 1656
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The meaning is like
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the soul of language,
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and the words are
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merely like its body.
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Thus, a totally
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literal translation
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is like a body
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without a soul,
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because the body
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is in one language,
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and the soul
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in another.
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--Pierre Coustel, ca. 1679
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Port-Royal Educator
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On translating literally:
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'Tis much like dancing
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on ropes with fettered
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legs: a man may shun
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a fall by using caution;
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but the gracefulness
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of motion is not
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to be expected.
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--John Dryden, 1680
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BELINDA: Aye, but you know we
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must return good for evil.
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LADY BRUTE: That may be a
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mistake in the translation.
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--Sir John Vanbrugh, 1698
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(The Provok'd Wife, I.i.)
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My old friend, Mrs.
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Carter, could make
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a pudding as well as
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translate Epictetus.
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--Samuel Johnson, 1738
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...the court lady at
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Versailles, who said:
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"What a pity
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that accident
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with the Tower of Babel
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should have got languages
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all confused--otherwise
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everyone would have
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always spoken French."
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--Voltaire, 1767
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Not a translation--
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only taken
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from the French.
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--Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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(The Critic, I.i., 1770)
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...a translation perfectly
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close is impossible
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because time has sunk
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the original strict
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import of a thousand
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phrases, and we
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have no means
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of recovering it.
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--William Cowper, 1780
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There is no species
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of writing so difficult
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to be translated, as
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that where the character
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of the style is
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florid, and the
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expression consequently
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vague, and of
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indefinite meaning.
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--Alexander Fraser Tytler, 1791
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When the original
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merely hints and is
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obscure, the translator
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has no right to give
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the text an
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arbitrary clarity.
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--Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1816
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Every language is
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an experiment.
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(Jede Sprache
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ist ein Versuch.)
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--Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1820?
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(cited by G. Steiner)
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It were as wise to
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cast a violet into a
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crucible, that you might
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discover the formal principle
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of its color and odor,
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as seek to transfuse from
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one language into another
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the creations of a poet.
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--Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
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...for say what we may
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of the inadequacy of
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translation, yet the
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work is and will always
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be one of the weightiest
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and worthiest undertakings
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in the general concerns
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of the world.
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--J.W. von Goethe, 1827
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Simple as the operation
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may appear...the task
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of translating with
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perfect exactness the
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sense of the original
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is a task of
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extreme difficulty.
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--Peter Mark Roget, 1852
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Author of "Roget's Thesaurus"
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Throughout the history
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of civilization,
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translators have been the
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agents for propagating
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knowledge from nation
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to nation, and the
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value of their labours
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has been inestimable.
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--Peter Mark Roget, 1852
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Translation and Translators:
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Quotations Through the Ages
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From Ancient Sumeria
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To Molecular Biology
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will continue in
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5 seconds.
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