But what an agonising truth was now contained for him in those lines of Alfred de Vigny's Journal d'un Poète which he had previously read without emotion:
Hain zuzen ere, zeinen egiazki bezain oinazetsuki dirdiratzen zuten orain Swannen gogoan, noizbait, soraioki, Alfred de Vigny-ren Journal d´un poète delakoan irakurriak zituèn lerro haiek: