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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

William Wordsworth
Youth, Madness, Poet
"Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.