• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

    H. L. Mencken: I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.
    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf