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-«something new must be added to translations to accommodate for inevitable losses »        (Steiner, 1966)

-« some translators ,  having faced  the  intolerable  atrocities and having been  tired of the injustices of their own  communities , have  found tranquility in translation to keep themselves away from the tormenting  currents . Julia Zulawski΄s statement is interesting ; « In 1950, I started translating to run away from our century for a while ».  This statement implies that you do not have to satisfy others ΄ curiosities but your own desire is sometimes a priority«          (Mac Shane, 1971)

- « the inexperienced young writers can learn from translations carried out by great translators of great writers and thinkers of great eras ».  (Mac Shane. 1971)

- « translation of a literary work is as tasteless as a stewed strawberry.          (Harry Smith, 1959)

- « Almost all translations are bad ».  (Max Eastman)

- « poetry is of so subtle a spirit that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ».     (Denham)  

- « the literal translation is a lie, it is a fake and a fraud »    (Burton, 1973) 

- « translation  is a  customs  house through  which  passes, if the custom officials  are not  alert , more  smuggled goods of foreign idioms than through any other linguistic frontier »        (Julia  Casares , 1956)

- « we must learn to depend not whole on any man's translation. (George Joey, 17th century)

- «A good translation takes us a very long way ». (Goethe, 19th century)

- « Translation is a sin ».   (Grant Showerman. 1916)

- « Translation  from one language  into  another is  like gazing  at a tapestry  with  the wrong  side  out » . (Cervantes, 17th century)

- « Poetry cannot be translated ».   (Samuel Johnson, 18th century)

- «Translation is like a woman, if it was beautiful, it could not be faithful ».

- « Few readers will get as much out of the originals as they would from a good translation ».  (Elsa Gress, 1971)

- « I sometimes  suspect that the  universe  is nothing  but a translation  from God's original  and this is  the reason  that  everything here is  topsy- turvy . My cabalist theory is that Almighty trusted Satan to translate his creation and it was published before he could correct it ».  (Isaac Bashevis)

- « Translation undresses a literary work, shows it in its true nakedness. An author can fool himself in his own language, but many of his shortcomings become clear to him in another language. Translation tells the bitter truth.  It unveils all masks ».   (Isaac Bashevis)

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