I am not a flower,

I am not a girl in bloom.

There is nothing in

 Me that has blossomed;

Age does not grow

A girl from a bud -

But withers what is 

Already immaculate.

"and there are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable soul.
But I had been thanking the gods too long, and thanking them for nothing."


- F. Scott Fitzgerald