Citas, Quotations

Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986

"El original es infiel a la traducción."

"The original is unfaithful to the translation" [Henley’s translation of Beckford’s Vathek].

Sobre el ‘Vathek’de William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 730

(Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations)

John Millington Synge 1871–1909

‘A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.’

Aran Islands (1907) pt. 3

(Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations)