The Eyes Of Truth

(curly m.c.)
.
The eyes of truth
Are always watching you.
Mongolian chant translation
Alsyn gazryn zeregleenn
Aduu shig mal shig torolzonoo khuoo
(translation:
In the distance the mirage stands out like
Horses and cattle.
Very glad to see my beloved son.
--- sandras whispers ---
Je me regarde
Je me sens
Je vois des enfants
Je suis enfant !
(translation:
I look at myself
I feel myself
I see the children

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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

quote by Edwin Booth
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

quote by John Denham
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

quote by Gilbert Murray
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

quote by Anita Diament
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

quote by Bertrand Russell
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I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

quote by Connie Chung
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Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

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The Poet's Fate

by Mohan Rana
Were this light even whiter
you and I would be invisible
we each would live our invisible pain
never knowing
the absence of joy
Stunned by that void
into which shadows vanish
forms dissolve
falling, we would imagine flying
without a sky
Only sounds
reach the surviving memory
no need for introductions
The poet's fate
poetry's fate
together
just a breath

[The literal translation of this poem was made by Lucy Rosenstein

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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act

quote by Dante Alighieri
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act

quote by Alighieri Dante
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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

quote by Henry Flynt
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

quote by Dante Alighieri
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

quote by Balthus
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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

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Idiomatic translation: A penny saved is a penny earned.

Arabian proverbs
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Reel To Real

Real To Real Cacophony
Echo Echo
Endlessly
Satellites Communicate
Pick Up Signal
Then Translate
Real To Real Cacophony
Transmission For You And Me
Satellites Communicate
Pick Up Signal
Then Translate
Real To Real Cacophony
Echo Echo
Endlessly
Do You Receive Me?
Do You Receive Me?
Do You Receive Me?
"NO

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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

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