«When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.»
Sara Teasdale *
* (St. Louis, Missouri 8-Aug-1884 / New York, NY 29-Jan-1933).
Lyrical poet, in 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).