From the poets of all ages and from the depths of their souls this tremendous vision of the flowing away of life like water has wrung bitter cries-from Pindar's "dream of a shadow," skias onar, to Calderón's "life is a dream" and Shakespeare's "we are such stuff as dreams are made on," this last a yet more tragic sentence than Calderón's, for whereas the Castilian only declares that our life is a dream, but not that we ourselves are the dreamers of it, the Englishman makes us ourselves a dream, a dream that dreams.
Arimaren erraietatik oihuak aterarazi dizkie garai guztietako poetei bizitzaren uhinen jarioaren ikuskizun ikaragarri honek, Pindaroren ???v????{??? "itzalaren amets"etik, Calderón-en "bizitza ametsa da", eta Shakespeareren "ametsen zurez eginak gara" hartaraino, gaztelauarena baino tragikoagoa izanik esakune hau, zeren hartan, amets, gure bizitzari besterik erizten ez zaion artean, baina ez guri, haren ameslarioi, ingelesak gu ere amets bihurtzen baikaitu, amets egiten duen ametsa.