The young poet Evmenis
\ncomplained one day to Theocritus:
\n“I’ve been writing for two years now
\nand I’ve composed only one idyll.
\nIt’s my single completed work.
\nI see, sadly, that the ladder
\nof Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
\nand from this first step I’m standing on now
\nI’ll never climb any higher.”
\nTheocritus retorted: “Words like that
\nare improper, blasphemous.
\nJust to be on the first step
\nshould make you happy and proud.
\nTo have reached this point is no small achievement:
\nwhat you’ve done already is a wonderful thing.
\nEven this first step
\nis a long way above the ordinary world.
\nTo stand on this step
\nyou must be in your own right
\na member of the city of ideas.
\nAnd it’s a hard, unusual thing
\nto be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
\nIts councils are full of Legislators
\nno charlatan can fool.
\nTo have reached this point is no small achievement:
\nwhat you’ve done already is a wonderful thing.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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