Amongst a democratic people poetry will not be fed with legendary lays or the memorials of old traditions. The poet will not attempt to people the universe with supernatural beings in whom his readers and his own fancy have ceased to believe; nor will he present virtues and vices in the mask of frigid personification, which are better received under their own features.
Beraz, herri demokratikoetan ez da espero behar poesia kondairatatik bizitzea, tradizioz eta antzinako oroitzapenez elikatzea, unibertsoa naturaz gaindiko izakiz betetzen saiatzea-jada ez baitute hauengan sinesten ez irakurleek, ez poetek-, ezta beren forma propioaz ikus daitezkeen bertuteak eta bizioak hotz-hotzean pertsonifikatzea ere.