In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.


The Life and Works of Goethe (ed. 1855)

George Henry Lewes Quotes

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it...

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it...

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it...

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it...