WHAT ONE CAN INVENT
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
WHAT ONE CAN INVENT
by Hans Christian Andersen
There was once a young man who was studying to be a poet. He
wanted to become one by Easter, and to marry, and to live by poetry.
To write poems, he knew, only consists in being able to invent
something; but he could not invent anything. He had been born too
late- every ...