Young Poet

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    And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)