Yvor Winters

Here you will find the Poem To A Young Writer of poet Yvor Winters

To A Young Writer

Achilles Holt, Stanford, 1930

Here for a few short years 
Strengthen affections; meet, 
Later, the dull arrears 
Of age, and be discreet. 

The angry blood burns low. 
Some friend of lesser mind 
Discerns you not; but so 
Your solitude?s defined. 

Write little; do it well. 
Your knowledge will be such, 
At last, as to dispel 
What moves you overmuch.