I had already begun the destruction of my juvenilia-my scribbling had become suspicious to me-when I came upon a few volumes of Gottfried Keller's works, which I immediately read two or three times in succession.
Ordurako hasita nengoen neure lehen poemak albora utzi eta idazketa haiei mesfidantzaz begiratzen, halabeharrez Gottfried Kellerren liburu-pare bat eskuetaratu zitzaizkidanean, berehalaxe bitan eta hirutan bata bestearen atzetik irakurri nituenak.