You will live a futile life
if you do not become someone:
this said to me a gentleman,
and his house was a palace.
You will live a futile life
if you can't understand the world:
this said to me a poet,
who knew a thousand words.
I tried to be someone, but—
I was nobody.
I tried to become a poet,
but the world still has not understood.
You will live a futile life,
if you don't do what you want from yourself:
said to me a man looking at the sea,
a futile life, you will live.