If Only I Could Translate Russian

I'm translating Jorge Luis Borges again, but this time I'm translating one of his pithy quotes about translation:

No sé por qué siempre se piensa mal de los traductores y, sin embargo, todos estamos de acuerdo en que la literatura rusa es admirable...

I don't know why people think badly of translators whilst, nevertheless, everybody is in agreement that Russian literature is to be admired...

From Las palabras son pistolas cargadas.