oh yes, Mr. Shaun, the Bible was not written in English

The Gospel of Christ and, in general,
the Holy Bible are written with the inspiration of God.
The Prophets and the Apostles
have recorded in written form
a portion of the oral teaching of the Old Testament

in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.
in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as the New Testament in Greek.

These are the original languages of the Holy Bible from' which all the translations have been derived. God's inspiration is confined to the original languages and utterances, not the many translations. There are 1,300 languages and dialects into which the Holy Bible, in its entirety or in portions, has been

translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated.translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated. translated.

[...] Read more

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Translators, traitors.

Italian proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Translation is the art of failure.

quote by Umberto Eco
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

We are all mediators, translators.

quote by Jacques Derrida
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Translator, traitor.

Italian proverbs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Poets Lost In Translation

several differing translations
of some masterpiece poems
written by immortal poets
timeless especially esteemed
written in foreign languages

stresses how much poetry
suffers lost in translation
it is the hardest literary
medium to translate due
to the multiple meanings

of some words choice chosen
in the original mother language
the wonderful poetic effects
linking such words achieves
resonates in receptive souls

Is a good translation only
achieved when the translator

[...] Read more

poem by Terence George Craddock
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

A bad translation destroys a book.

famous quote by Irina Mavrodin (2011)
Added by Dan CostinaÅŸ
Comment! | Vote! | Copy! | In Spanish | In Italian | In Romanian

To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors

Sit further, and make room for thine own fame,
Where just desert enrolles thy honour'd Name
The good Interpreter. Some in this task
Take of the Cypress vail, but leave a mask,
Changing the Latine, but do more obscure
That sence in English which was bright and pure.
So of Translators they are Authors grown,
For ill Translators make the Book their own.
Others do strive with words and forced phrase
To add such lustre, and so many rayes,
That but to make the Vessel shining, they
Much of the precious Metal rub away.
He is Translations thief that addeth more,
As much as he that taketh from the Store
Of the first Author. Here he maketh blots
That mends; and added beauties are but spots.
Caelia whose English doth more richly flow
Then Tagus, purer then dissolved snow,
And sweet as are her lips that speak it, she
Now learns the tongues of France and Italy;

[...] Read more

poem by Andrew Marvell
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

quote by John Donne
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Charity, caring, loving-kindness

Translators live a life
of great blessing, and of frustration:
they live uniquely in the mind
of the great ones they translate – and yet
are destined never fully to reveal this
in their native language, to their fellows,
countrymen and women;
must leave it to the reader, to restore to life.

We too, translators –
words into deeds, deeds into experience,
experience then taught in words…so -

charity, care, or loving-kindness?

maybe we are old, and we uncared for;
maybe we are young, and we uncared for..

but, caring care – this is so beautiful;
to receive; even just to watch; or best, to give…

[...] Read more

poem by Michael Shepherd
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

quote by Larry Elder
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The present is a present, so be present

Always, behind the known,
the greater unknown…

behind the tedious Latin translation,
the struggle to find French elegance in French -
the private joys of the translator…
that rare intimacy, as a soul to soul
across the divides of language…

‘Laetus in praesens’ says Marsilio Ficino
in his Renaissance colloquial Latin
written up around the wall
of his Academy, such as it was…

The translator – half mechanical,
half philosopher, scribbles down
‘Rejoice in the present’..
and presently, pauses, contemplates…

Is it, was it, as easy as all that?

[...] Read more

poem by Michael Shepherd
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

quote by Leonard Cohen
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I write and the sky translates my wounds in blue.

aphorism by Costel Zăgan from Inventeme
Added by Costel Zăgan
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I write and the sky translates my wounds in blue.

Costel Zăgan in Inventeme
Added by Costel Zăgan
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

quote by Cornelia Funke
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)

quote by Mark Twain
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

quote by Sibel Edmonds
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

quote by Rene Magritte
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!