"In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constr…"

"I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtil…"

"I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can …"

"Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different …"

"Translation is at best an echo."

"Translation of poetry into poetry is difficult, because the translator must give a brilliancy to his language without…"

"Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few but such as cannot write, translate."

"No man is capable of translating poetry, who, besides a genius to that art, is not a master both of his author's lang…"

"A good poet is no more like himself in a dull translation than his carcass would be to his living body."

"Nor ought a genius less than his that writ Attempt translation."