Resignation (1786)
“Translated: There is another and a better world.”
Es gibt noch ein anderes, besseres Leben.
Menschenhass und Reue (1798), Act I, scene 1; repeated by another character in Act III, scene 1. This title translates as Misanthropy and Repentance, but is known in English as The Stranger; translated by N. Schink, London, 1799.
“Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.”
Black Poetry Writing (1975)
“It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.”
As quoted in "From Bach to Kafka, or... about temptation - An interview by Emil Bassat http://darl.eu/intervie/84_05_30.htm" in Sofia News (30 May 1984).
“The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched.”
“World II,” p. 84
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Same and Change”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 21
“Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.”
2 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 16
“The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.”
Shengren (2011)
“The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.”
Sunday after the war (1944), pub. New Directions.
