Schoolboy Rowe/the War Years 1944%e2%80%931945

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    “On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “You went to meet the shell’s embrace of fire
    On Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day
    The war seemed over more for you than me,
    But now for me than you the other way.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “... it is only after years and years that you can speak of penury in the midst of opulence, of hunger in the midst of almost sinful plenty. You must never speak of the immediate experience unless and until you have learned its consequent value. Otherwise you grow old in bitterness which is barren and futile....”
    —E. M. Almedingen (b. 1898–?)