Challenge of the Week

Who wrote it?

YYou would certainly be glad to meet me. I was the lady who appreciated youth. Yes, all that happy time, I was not like some. It did not go by me like a flitting dream. Hint: One of the moderns!     They are all alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led it forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it. Hint: He is known for his poetry but also for his portrait!   The everlasting universe of things Flows throught the mind, and rolls its rapid waves Now dark- now glittering-now reflecting gloom- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Hint: Ladies first!i       Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind. Hint: A flamboyant Englishman, who in his day dazzled people with his witty conversation.       Reputation. It is given you by second-rate people and you share it with second-rate people or scoundrels Hint: A Frenchmen, one of my favorites.     We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess. Hint: He is a great American.       I tell you that I have a long way to go before I am - where one begins... You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Resolve to be always beginning - to be a beginner!  Hint: The author is a German male poet.

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