John Dryden Quotes

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All I am saying is that it would not be the same.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five different languages. Almost none of them I can read. I can read only the English editions. But, I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque. So, different musical instruments provide for different music.

A language is a map of our failures

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

Each actor requires a different language.