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Famous quotes containing the word translate:

    It comes in, falling to its knees
    but we can’t translate the language.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
    Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)

    Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself
    Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace,
    Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)