Brothers Grimm  

"One element of the artistic organization in Ortega’s essay is the many verbs and nouns alluding to seafaring, either directly or in a figurative sense, in spite of the fact that the subject has nothing to do with seafaring. This is an indication that he is aware of Jakob Grimm’s saying, according to which translating resembles a ship manned to sail the seas, but though it safely carries the goods, it must land at shore with a different soil under a different air. The metaphor is obvious because all the images presented by Ortega on the subject of translation derive from what Schleiermacher, Humboldt and Goethe have said about the problem. Thus, he must have known Grimm’s metaphor as well. Hence, the translator is satisfied in choosing as shifted equivalents concepts from seafaring, where there are none in the original, if these are easily available in German. The reason is that at other times, when in the Spanish language the association with “seafaring” is implied, an equivalent German expression is not available: arribar-ankommen, instead of llegar. This is one of the examples 1 mean when referring to “the analogy of artistic form”.)"