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Borges: “Reading can be a creative act, no less creative than writing. As Emerson said, a book is one thing among things, a dead thing, until someone opens it. Then the aesthetic experience happens, something that was dead revives and revives a in a form that is not necessarily the one it had when it appeared to the author.”

I would add that it would apply to a good translation.

..it does seem so hard to define things precisely because what’s most obvious is impossible to define. To define is to employ words and they can be less expressive than what is being defined.. How can you define the taste of coffee or the appealing sadness of twilight or that hope, doubtless an illusion, that one feels at the morning?