There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.