Smith Translation

Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or translation:

“Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)