"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"
This was quoted in one of my all time favorite books Once A Runner by John L. Parker Jr. incidentally this is being republished by my friend Byrd.
Wow I don't know much about Sylvia Plath other than that she killed herself at the age of 31 but this poem is pretty powerful. There is more of her there.
There is a lot more have fun exploring.
