“Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love”
Source: The Class
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Erich Segal 22
American writer 1937–2010Related quotes
“There was a badness that had its way. But love wasn't lost. Love will have its day.”
"North and South of the River"
Lyrics, Staring at the Sun (1997 EP)
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves.
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has — the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge — infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.
“Certainly everyone, in order to protect love,
Certainly wishes to believe in something”
Forgiveness
Lyrics, Memorial Address
Source: The best critic of a translation is its second translation, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, 2013 https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/3001
