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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. - Paul Auster

The original is unfaithful to the translation. - Jorge Luis Borges

Translation is at best an echo. - George Borrow