When his second book, Poems (Ljóð), came out three years later his former comrades were quick to point out that the red flame of revolution had given way to the white smoke of self-doubt.
När hans andra bok, Ljóð (Dikter), kom ut tre år senare och hans tidigare kamrater var snabba att påpeka att den röda lågan av revolutionen hade fått ge vika för den vita röken av självtvivel.