Jan 8, 2013

Why It's Too Late To Do Anything Great

At twenty years Arthur Rimbaud
had started writing and let it go.

Newton discovered, by twenty-three,
both calculus and gravity.

Wolfgang M. and Ludwig Van
performed in public before they were ten.

Tiger Woods could hit the green,
Bobby Fischer took a king.

T.S. Eliot wrote Alfred P.
while still at university.

At five years Shirley Temple tapped.
Marlowe, Alex Pope, Lovecraft,

Ginsberg, Dylan, Kerouac,
Akiane Kramarik.

Jeremy Bentham and John Stewart Mill
excelled in college when they were still

under fifteen. The young Minout
Drouet was good, but Alex the Great
invaded Persia at twenty-two.
Keats was dead by twenty-eight.

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