Joseph Smith Translation

Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or translation:

“Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch above the meadow:

It was like feasting upon air.”
—William Jay Smith (b. 1918)

“Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)