"Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.”

“What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.”

“What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.”

“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”

“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

“What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.”

“The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.”

“Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.”

“Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.”