Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

La gran literatura no es más que el lenguaje cargado de sentido hasta el grado máximo que sea posible.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

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