"What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past."

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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne