No one understands devotion to life, nor exhaustion, better than he, nor that Nature has willed it so, and that true industry and the heartfelt wish to produce work have their source in seasons of inertia.
But I understood his devotion to poetry and the transporting quality of his performances.
After Zebra showed Leila this video of Simone performing at Montreux, she too understood the devotion.
Mere hours after meeting a wonderful person who quickly understood my devotion and affection for Joe Namath, he presented me with a framed photograph of Namath with Coach Paul Bear Bryantnt, personally autographed by Broadway Joe.
A friend, Angela Allen-Bell, didn't understand his devotion.
To understand the devotion that enables that to happen, perhaps you had to be there.
Zabaleta understands the devotion Aguero inspires back home and clearly expects more of the same at City once the striker adapts to the new surroundings.
The chairman of the Republican leadership in the House, Representative Rob Portman of Ohio, said: "We wanted him back, but I understand his devotion to his wife and girls.
It is easy to understand the devotion to the volatile god when you are walking next to rivers that continue to carve deep canyons out of mountains rising to the sky.
It's striking that while pollsters who misjudged last May's general election have openly analysed and debated where they may have gone wrong, journalists haven't accounted nearly so publicly for our failure to see Corbyn coming or understand the devotion he inspires.
