Walter Benjamin Quotes About Translations

Quotes about: Translations

• 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

  Information, Language, Hallmark

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Philosophy, Muse, Translations

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

  Walter Benjamin

  Light, Shining, Doe

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