Old Poets Quotes
- When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath
- Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius
- Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. — Mason Cooley
- Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I… — Mary Oliver