On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
ATTRIBUTION:
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet. My Heart Laid Bare (written c. 1865), publ. in Intimate Journals, sct. 71 (1887), trans. by Christopher Isherwood (1930), rev. by Don Bachardy (1989).
