This is a brief communication, but well worth reading in order to revive one's image of an aspect of Freud that one may so easily forget. The accuracy of the author's description of Freud, even though written many years later, is attested to by the fact that the patient-author-poet's impressions are taken from two letters he wrote to a friend immediately after seeing Freud. If we wish to read between the lines, we can learn from this short communication something about some aspects of analyzability and about the importance of being aware of one's own influence on the patient in order to protect the patient.