I was beginning to understand that it takes more than audacity of mind to free us from banality, and that the poet triumphs over routines or imposes his thought upon words by efforts quite as long and persevering as those of my work of emperor.
topiko hauetaz askatzeko, hasia nintzen ulertzen, ez dela aski izpirituaren ausardia, eta poetak ezin duela, aldi berean, ohikeriak gainditu eta bere hitzei bere pentsamendua ezarri, non-eta eginkizun horri nik neure enperadore-betebeharrei eskaintzen dizkiedan ahaleginak bezain luze eta jarraiak eskaintzen ez dizkion.