John Denham

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.