'Your are living on a false reputation
-just like Baudelaire*and Chopin*.
But nothing is more difficult
than making the public go back
on a too hasty first impression.
You are still the slave of your successes
and the reader's idleness would like
to put a stop to your triumphs there....
You are much more inmportant than is commonly supposed.'.
*Both of whom were trapped by their early fame.
Baudelaire and Chopin faced harsh early criticisms
and rigid public labels that evaded the depth of their genius.
Overcoming the rapidly arrived at, lazy early public judgment
takes a long time, The best estimations of artistic worth
last far beyond early limits set by popular critics.
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