when I used to write verses (and I never made any but Latin), they evidently discovered the poet I had last read, and some of my first essays have a little exotic taste:
neurtitzen egitera nahasten nintzenean (eta ez nuen latinorik besterik egin), ageriki salatzen zuten azkenik irakurri berri nuen poeta; eta, nire lehen entseiuetarik zenbaitek arrotz-urrina dute.