With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Bio: Donald Edwin "Don" Young was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the U.S. Representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district since March 1973.
