Rilke - "... poems amount to so little ... "

... Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life.  You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a lone one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.  For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge