Translation is the art of erasing oneself in order to speak in another’s voice. –David Cole

The translator is the only one who truly reads a text and reads it in its profundity, in all its layers, weighing and appraising every word and every image and perhaps even discovering its empty and false passages. –Primo Lev

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. –Anthony Burgess