Henri-Louis Bergson Quote on Translation and the Inner Meaning of a Poem

„All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.“

Henri-Louis BergsonHenri-Louis Bergson on the limits of translations in conveying the inner meaning of a poem.
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Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher and Nobel laureate in Literature in 1927. He is considered, alongside Friedrich Nietzsche and Wilhelm Dilthey, one of the most important representatives of the philosophy of life.

Philosophical reflection on the impossibility of fully capturing the inner meaning of an original through translations.


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Henri-Louis Bergson quote about translation and the inner meaning of a poem

Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941) was a prominent French philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of life and his analyses of time and consciousness. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927 for his literary and philosophical works. His ideas greatly influenced many 20th-century thinkers.

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