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Genius , in the popular conception , is inextricably tied up with ____________________ doing something truly creative ; we're inclined to think , requires the freshness and energy of youth . Orson Welles made his masterpiece Citizen Kane , at twenty - five . Herman Melville wrote a book a year ____________________ his ____________________ twenties , culminating at age thirty - two , with Moby - Dick . Mozart wrote his breakthrough Piano Concerto No . 9 in E - Flat - Major at the ____________________ of twenty - one . In some creative forms , like lyric poetry , the ____________________ of precocity had hardened into an iron law . How ____________________ was T . S . Eliot when he wrote The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock ( I grow old ? I grow old ) ? Twenty - three . Poet's peak young , the creativity researcher James Kaufman maintains , the author of flow agrees : ? The most creative lyric verse is ____________________ to be that written by the young . ? According to the Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner , a leading ____________________ on creativity Lyric poetry is a ____________________ where ____________________ is discovered early , burns brightly , and then ____________________ out at an early age .