
Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.
– Nataly Kelly
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- As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue. – Nataly Kelly
- Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? – Nataly Kelly
- To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws. – Nataly Kelly
- The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water. – Kamand Kojouri
- A translation is no translation,’ he said, -˜unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. – John Millington Synge
- If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. – Ren Magritte
- I dreamt of you last night – as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. – Vladimir Nabokov
- Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator. – Nataly Kelly
- In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops. – Nataly Kelly
- Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual. – Nataly Kelly
- be my sonata, my cantata, my lovesing me something sweetbut not too sweet(or i may grow deaf to our harmonyas we decrescendo into silence) – Nenia Campbell
- Stop playing it safe. Start playing it big just like the big boys. – Timi Nadela
- Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people. – Amit Kalantri
- Playing the martyr doesn’t suit you, Leila.’-˜Maybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you. – Lindsay J Pryor
- How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I’m playing and to the person I’m playing wi – Alan Alda
- There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter -” an act. – Vera Nazarian
- live.fight.then you are allowed to die – Nataly Braven
- With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that’s the beauty of poetry; it’s rebellious, like me. – Melody Lee
- There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money. – Robert Graves
- Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting – Leonardo da Vinci
- Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance. – Debasish Mridha
- We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. – Muriel Rukeyser
- Truth is like poetry.And most people ????ing hate poetry. – Adam McKay
- Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. – Aberjhani
- Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things – Ilyas Kassam
- What is poetry? Only the poetry can answer this! – TRIPURARI
- ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY. – Amy King
- The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
- (Referring to the piano’s natural shape) Isn’t it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? – Victor Borge
- Everybody told me this ‘girl on the piano’ thing was never going to work. – Tori Amos
- He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto – Andy Stanton
- There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. – James Rhodes
- If life was a piano light and darkness would be the keys. And shadows would be the melody that creates the harmony. – Joe Rodriguez
- The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I turn my back on him as he goes,and settle myself in the parlor,and touch Ma’s piano.My fingers leave sighsin the dust. – Karen Hesse
- I’ve never been in love. I’ve dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost. – Anton Chekhov
- Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead. – Richelle E Goodrich
- I shall now express my utter disgust and anger with you through the piano. – Akira Sasanuma
- My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof. – RX Bird
