As long as you continue to follow your most intense
obsessions, mercilessly, fearlessly; as long as folly,
even recklessness, still arouses in you an ineffable,
ineluctable joy; as long as you continue to feel rapport
and sense beauty with and in the simplest of things;
and every day, following dream-filled nights, you
awaken to days interwoven with reverie, imagination,
and inspiration; as long as, despite, still, and always –
you are not yet too old.
