when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I seemed to have detected in my mind, and in my fear of their not turning out 'true to life,' I had no time to ask myself whether what I was writing would be pleasant to read!
nik neuk osatzen nituenean, aldiz, gogamenean sumatzen nuena zehazki islaraz zezaten beste kezkarik ez nuela, "egiantzekotasunari" huts egingo ote zioten beldur, ez nuen asti handirik izaten, horratik, idazten ari nintzèn hura atsegingarria ote zen ala ez neure buruari galdetzeko.