كان يخشى نضجه وهو يتعاظم عليه، بفكره الناضج، ومهارته، وفنّه المكتمل؛ ومع ذلك كان يفتقر إلى شعر الصبا الذي يجعل الحياة نهايةً تامّةً للحياة.

“He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.”T. E. Lawrence — The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant) (2015)