“luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language.”
“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.”
“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
“Love . . . requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours.”
“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”