Joseph Smith Translation

Famous quotes containing the words joseph, smith and/or translation:

“St Joseph thought the world would melt
But liked the way his finger smelt.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)