Young Poet

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“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)