| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 25606 |
| QUOTATION: | To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paul Goodman (1911–1972), U.S. author, poet, critic. “Summer 1957, in Europe,” sct. 8, Five Years (1966). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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