And it almost always get lost in translation, and most translators are midwits who can't get into it anyway. It's Poetry-situation, only that it also happens in prose.
In reality, none of us are true /lit/ unless we learn English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanscrit and Chinese. That's 10 languages to learn. That, or it's filter-city.
Its literally over. Only "polygots" are true lit. We're all frauds....