Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.Robert Frost 1874-1963. In Elizabeth S. Sergeant ‘Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence’ (1960) ch. 18.
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. Robert Frost 1874-1963.In Louis Untermeyer ‘Robert Frost: a Backward Look’ (1964) p. 18.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.Hippocrates c.460-357 B.C.‘Aphorisms’ sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis; seeSeneca ‘De Brevitae Vitae’ sect. 1.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.Hippocrates c.460-357 B.C.‘Aphorisms’ sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis; seeSeneca ‘De Brevitae Vitae’ sect. 1.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.Hippocrates c.460-357 B.C.‘Precepts’ ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.Hippocrates c.460-357 B.C.‘Precepts’ ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)
Some hold translations not unlike to be the wrong side of a Turkey tapestry. James Howell c.1593-1666. ‘Familiar Letters’ (1645-55) bk. 1, letter 6.
The lie in the soul is a true lie.Benjamin Jowett 1817-93. Introduction to his translation (1871) of Plato’s ‘Republic’ bk. 2.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.Immanuel Kant 1724-1804. ‘Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics’ (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2.
We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no ubjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that’s that.Thomas Mann 1875-1955. ‘The Magic Mountain’ (1924) ch. 6, sect. (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter).
Mankind always sets itself only such problems as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, it will always be found that the task itself arises only when the material conditionsfor its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.Karl Marx 1818-83. ‘A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’ (1859) preface (translation by D. McLellan).
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965. Speech at Harvard, 6 September 1943, in ‘Onwards to Victory’ (1944) p. 238.
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