What if he died before he was able to fulfill his promise as a poet, ? before he could publish or make public his talent?

要是他还没能实现成为诗人的愿望，还没能彰显自己的才华就死了呢？

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And he's continually willing to make that belief a public one.

然后他愿意把它不断地公之于众。

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