Be equal to your talent, not your age.
At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (Jul 18 1933-2017), Russian poet; He was spokesman for the post-Stalin generation of Russian poets, and their demands for greater artistic freedom; wrote Bratsk Station.