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Quote by Yuan Haowen
I started reading at the age of four, and at the age of eight began composing poems.
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The speaker says that reading began very early, at four years old. By age eight, that interest had developed into writing poems. The sentence presents these two ages as a simple timeline from learning to read to beginning creative writing.
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- The Poetry of Yuan Haowen, by John Timothy Wixted (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press)
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