The original text and translation of Samuel's "Youth" are as follows:
Youth is not years, but state of mind; youth is not rosy faces, red lips, soft knees, but deep will , magnificent imagination, fiery emotions; youth is the deep spring of life.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination , a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth is full of energy, bravery overwhelms timidity, and enterprising overwhelms peace. Such vigor is common among men in their twenties, but more common among men in their sixties. Adding years does not mean getting old; discarding ideals means falling into old age.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
As time goes by, the decline only affects the skin; abandoning enthusiasm will lead to decadence in the soul. Worry, fear, and loss of self-confidence will definitely distort the mind and turn the spirit into ashes.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
No matter the year Sixty years old, or twenty-eight years old, all have the joy of life, the inspiration of miracles, and childlike innocence in their hearts.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.
The human heart should be like a vast sea. Only by constantly accepting the rivers of beauty, hope, joy, courage and strength can we stay young and graceful forever.
In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young .
Samuel's introduction:
Samuel Beckett (April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989) was an Irish writer whose main creative fields include Drama, novels and poetry, especially drama, have the highest achievements. He is an important representative of absurdist drama. In 1969, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his sublime artistic expression of human suffering in a new form of fiction and drama."
Samuel Beckett Irish writer. Born in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, his father was a surveyor and his mother was a devout Christian. When he was traveling in Paris as a student, he met James Joyce, the famous Irish writer living in Paris, and worked as his secretary.