Translations Quotes
154 quotes
"Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter."
"Hospitality sitting with Gladness."
"Reynold A. Nicholson, Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz (Cambridge UP, 1898)"
"William Falconer, in The Asiatic Journal (1840) p. 32, (1841) p. 238, (1842) p. 102 · Fraser's Magazine (April 1855) pp. 374–5"
"Edward Henry Whinfield, Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898)"
"Reynold A. Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam (1914)"
"Reynold A. Nicholson, Rumi: Poet And Mystic (George Allen and Unwin, 1950)"
"William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983)"
"Camille and Kabir Helminski, Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance (1990)"
"Camille and Kabir Helminski, Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance (1996)"
"Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi (HarperCollins, 1995)"
"James Fadiman and Robert Frager, Essential Sufism (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997)"
"Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1998)"
"Shahram Shiva, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (Jain Publishing, 1999)"
"Andrew Harvey, Teachings of Rumi (Shambhala, 1999)"
"John Baldock, The Essence of Rumi (London: Arcturus, 2005)"
"Ibrahim Gamard and Rawan Farhadi, The Quatrains of Rumi (2008)"
"Promise is most given when the least is said."
"I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original."
"John Brough, Poems from the Sanskrit (London: Penguin, 1968) no. 165"
"Chandra Rajan, Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (Calcutta: Penguin Books, 1989)"
"W. J. Johnson, The Recognition of Sakuntala; Sakuntala in the Mahabharata (New York: Oxford UP, 2001)"
"Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, New Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gospel from Oxyrhynchus (New York and London: for the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904)"
"A. Guillaumont, H.-Ch. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till and Yassah ʿAbd al Masīh, The Gospel According to Thomas: The Coptic Text Established and Translated (New York: Harper & Bros, 1959)"
"Marvin W. Meyer, The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels (New York: Random House, 1984)"
"Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987)"
"William G. Morrice, Hidden Sayings of Jesus: Words Attributed to Jesus Outside the Four Gospels (London: SPCK, 1997)"
"Philip Sidney, printed with The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (F1, 1593)"
"Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin Hood (1641) act 2, sc. 5"
"William Bowles, in Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions, collected by N. Tate (London: J. Hindmarsh, 1685) p. 85"
"John Addison, The Works of Anacreon, [with] the Odes, Fragments and Epigrams of Sappho (London: J. Watts, 1735)"
"Ambrose Philips, Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, &c. with Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho (1748)"
"Edwin Arnold, The Poets of Greece (London: Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin, 1869)"
"D. G. Rossetti, Poems (1870; 2nd ed., 1881)"
"J. A. Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets (1st series, 1873; 2nd series, 1876; revised 1883)"
"H. T. Wharton, Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation, 2nd ed. (London: David Stott, 1887)"
"Frederick Tennyson, The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcaeus (1890) p. 91"
"Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)"
"W. G. Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (Cambridge UP, 1907) pp. 4–17"
"Rennell Rodd, Love, Worship and Death: Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology (London: Edward Arnold, 1919)"
"A. S. Way, Sappho, and the Vigil of Venus (London: Macmillan and Co, 1920)"
"A. E. Housman, Last Poems (1922) no. 24 · More Poems (1936) nos. 10 and 11"
"J. M. Edmonds, Lyra Graeca, vol. 1 (1922)"
"E. M. Cox, The Poems of Sappho (London: Williams and Norgate, 1924)"
"T. F. Higham, C. M. Bowra and W. S. Marris, The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938) nos. 140–157"
"Douglas Young, A Braird o Thristles (1947) — into Scots"
"Richmond Lattimore, Greek Lyrics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949; revised 1960)"
"C. M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry: From Alcman to Simonides (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961) p. 197"
"Mary Barnard, Sappho: A New Translation (University of California Press, 1958)"
"Willis Barnstone, Sappho: Lyrics in the Original Greek with Translations (New York: Anchor, 1965; 2nd ed., New York UP)"
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