Mais ce n’était qu’alors, quand je les lisais dans son œuvre, que je pouvais en jouir; quand c’était moi qui les composais, préoccupé qu’elles reflétassent exactement ce que j’apercevais dans ma pensée, craignant de ne pas «faire ressemblant», j’avais bien le temps de me demander si ce que j’écrivais était agréable! →
But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I seemed to have detected in my mind, and in my fear of their not turning out 'true to life,' I had no time to ask myself whether what I was writing would be pleasant to read!