Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. High art (№ 335415)

The story is told at the time, Vladimir dal, it seems to me instructive.
"Visiting the Greek sat by the sea and sang something to myself, and then tearfully cried. What happened in this Russian were asked to translate the song; the Greek translated: sitting bird, don't know how to call in Russian, she sat on the mountain, sat a long time, waved his wings, flew far, far away, through the forest flew away... And that's it. In Russian not out of nothing, and in Greek it is a pity".