There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

在一首诗中有一个结晶，年轻人可以做到，但中年人做不到。

-- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克