“(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.”
“It is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.”
“In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.”