And then I wanted it to be a work that required intellectual effort, nothing shallow, nothing easy, but something you could study, learn by heart, poems, and preferably-I had the audacity to dream of such a thing-Goethe or Homer.
Eta gero nahi nuen ahalegin intelektual handia eskatuko zidan obra izatea, ez axalekoa, ez erraza, baizik eta ikas zitekeena, buruz ikas zitekeena, poesia, eta, ahal izanez gero-bai amets ausarta!-, Goethe edo Homero.