“Translation is at best an echo.”
“The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.”
“You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.”
“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”