“A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)”
“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ”
“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
“The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary.”