a poet to whom, before that, I had always preferred Belli, and it was wrong-Malnate said-to compare Belli's gloomy Counter-Reformation monotony with the varied, warm humanity of Porta.
Baina, milandarra izanik, Porta zen haren grina handia; nik, aldiz, beste poeta bat jarria nuen beti Portaren gainetik: Belli.