Jorge Luis Borges: El original es infiel a la traducción.

El original es infiel a la traducción. — Jorge Luis Borges

El original es infiel a la traducción.

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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. — Jorge Luis Borges
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend t — Jorge Luis Borges
Villari took no notice of them because the idea of a coincidence between art and — Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. — Jorge Luis Borges
Mallarmé is also untranslatable into French. — Jules Renard
Baudelaire : his heavy phrase, loaded with electric fluids. — Jules Renard
Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast — Abraham Lincoln
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselv — Michel de Montaigne
Your flaming torch aloft we bear, With burning heart an oath we swear To keep th — C. B. Galbreath . Answer to McCrae's In Flanders' Fields.
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and — D. H. Lawrence
I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side. — Lady Dufferin
I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for — Fernando Pessoa