Maria A. Burnett, M.A., Laureate of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Literary Translator of Italian and English
Some famous quotes…. and food for thought
“Poetry is what is lost in the translation.”
- Robert Frost
“Woe to
the makers of literary 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
“The
original is unfaithful to the translation.”
- Jorge Luis
Borges
“A
translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.”
-
Samuel Johnson
