Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. >>

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the pre >>

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has >>

Quotations about Translation

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is transl >>

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To m >>

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function canno >>

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Benjamin, Walter