To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  Of  A E Housman.'A  Worcestershire Lad', collected in Forewords and  Afterwords (1973).

Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, byonemeans oranother, triestoopenit. the chest is opened: inside, there is nothing.

-Mishima,Yukio pseudonym of  Hiraoka Kimitake
Acts ofWorship,'Cigarette' (translated byJohn Bester,1989).