Sayings for translators

Selected and translated by: Bajram Karabolli

- Writers make national literature, translators make universal literature.

Jose Saramago

- Without translation, we would be residents of provinces limited to silence.

- To translate means to travel through a foreign country.

Steiner Gorge

If a translator does his work properly, he is a benefactor of humanity; if not, it is a real public enemy.

Miguel Saenz

– The translator is a collaborator of the author.

George Gonzalez Moore

– The translator is a privileged writer who has the opportunity to rewrite masterpieces in his own language.

Javier Marías

– Translators are horses that are traded in the post offices of civilization.

alexander pushkin

– Translation is the essence of modern civilization.

FC Lucas

– The ideal reader is a translator. He is able to unravel the text, strip the skin, remove even the marrow, follow every artery and every vein in it and then raise up a new living being.

Alberto Manguel

- To be a translator means to exercise the noble profession of communication between people who are separated by language barriers, completely or partially, insurmountable for them.

Valentin García Yebra

– Translation is a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, of course, it is not beautiful.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

– The best about translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a carpet.

Leonardo Sciascia

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