Interesting quote on translation

 Literalism really doesn't exist,you know,because the languages don't dovetail exactly.So you can't have a word-for-word correspondence between one language and another.But you can have a correspondence of ideas and intention-aesthetic intention,as well as significance.And that's what you have to be-faithful to.-Literary translator Edith Grossman,speaking with Eleanor Wachtel on WRITERS AND COMPANY,CBC in 2005.