Who said “Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”?

“There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.”

“Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.”

“Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.”

“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.”

“The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

“Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”

“Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.”

“Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.”

“We are never like angels till our passion dies.”