"Untranslatable" Quotes from Famous Books
... what excuse I can offer for making public this attempt to "translate the untranslatable." No one can be more convinced than I am that a really successful translator must be himself an original poet; and where the author translated happens to be one whose special characteristic is incommunicable grace of expression, the demand on the ... — Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace |