America Quote by Dana Gioia

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

— James Russell Lowell

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

“an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.”

— Olivia Manning

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

— Howard Jacobson

There is a basic state pension to which we are all entitled at a certain age, but on top of that we encourage everyone…

— Damian Green

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

— Eli Khamarov

“Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It’s fucked up old age itself.”

— Margaret Drabble

You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17…

— Stedman Graham

“aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.”

— Elizabeth Berg

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

— Gore Vidal