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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day, and she would listen to every sound, spring to her feet, feel surprised that it had not come; then at sunset, always more sorrowful, she would wish the next day were already there.
    book-quotesoulsadsimile

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority.
    book-quotemeaningpoetryprose

  3. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden.
    book-quotefreedomtranslationfrihed

  4. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Det var det der holdt mig vågen om natten," sagde Walter. "Den her opsplitning af landet. For det er det samme problem overalt. Det er ligesådan med internettet eller kabel-tv - der er aldrig noget centrum, der er ingen fælles enighed, der er bare en billion forskellige distraherende støjkilder. Vi kan aldrig sætte os og føre en vedvarende samtale, det er bare billigt skrammel og en lorteudvikling, det hele. Alt det ægte, alt det autentiske, alt det ærlige dør ud. Intellektuelt og kulturelt bliver vi kastet omkring som tilfældige billiardkugler og reagerer på den seneste tilfældige stimulans.
    book-quotefreedomtranslationfrihed

  5. Antonio Gramsci _ Lettere dal carcere

    Un traduttore qualificato dovrebbe essere in grado non solo di tradurre letteralmente, ma di tradurre i termini, anche concettuali, di una determinata cultura nazionale nei termini di un'altra cultura nazionale, cioè un tale traduttore dovrebbe conoscere criticamente due civiltà ed essere in grado di far conoscere l'una all'altra servendosi del linguaggio storicamente determinato di quella civiltà alla quale fornisce il materiale d'informazione.
    book-quotetranslation

  6. Gordon Korman _ The Emperor's Code

    Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.
    book-quotejoketranslationjonah-wizard

  7. John Berger _ Confabulations

    We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to touch the vision or experience which prompted them. We then gather up what we have found there and take this quivering almost wordless 'thing' and place it behind the language into which it needs to be translated. And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the 'thing' which is waiting to be articulated.
    book-quotetranslationthing

  8. John Berger _ Confabulations

    Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal
    book-quotemediationtranslationpre-verbal

  9. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him.
    book-quotetranslationexeter-book

  10. Sophocles Carson Anne

    Many terribly quiet customers exist but none moreterribly quiet than Manhis footsteps pass so perilously soft across the seain marble winterup the stiff blue waves and every Tuesdaydown he grinds the unastonishable earthwith horse and shattershatters too the cheeks of birds and traps them in his forest headlightssalty silvers roll into his net, he weaves it just for that,this terribly quiet customerhe doom
    poetrytranslationhamletsophocles

  11. Simonides of Ceos

    No I do not like blaming. Because for me it's enoughif someone is other than bad-not too much out of hand,conscious at least of the justice that helps the city,a healthy man. No I shall notlay blame. Because foolsare a species that never ends
    philosophypoetrytranslationgreek

  12. Anne Carson _ Nox

    Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...
    book-quotewordstranslation
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