Young Poet

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“To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)