Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all
there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Henry Ellis
Many critics, no defenders,
Translators have but two regrets:
When we hit, no one remembers,
When we miss, no one forgets.
Anonymous
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Anthony Burgess
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary.
No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Fredrik Bajer