Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.
goizean ez nintzen haiekin gogoratzen, baina nire baitan zeuden, koskoi hauskor zahar batean alde astun bat egon ohi den bezala.