translate quotes

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

- SirJohn Denham
  'To Richard Fanshaw'.

There was an old man of St Omer Who objected,'This town's a misnomer; You've no right to translate And beatificate A simple digamma in Homer.'

- SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
  'A Limerick', in Chanticlere, MichaelmasTerm.

I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
TheWill to Change,'Planetarium'.