We typically think of translation as an imperfect medium for expressing ideas. We might think that the intangible but important human elements get lost in translation. But I like what Jorge Luis Borges has to say about it: “the original is unfaithful to the translation...

Illusion makes us question what we perceive to be real, what we might otherwise uncritically accept in the world as given to us. The truth of art resides in its ability to illuminate our intricate and fragile relationship to the world, in all its manifest strangeness.