Age Quote by Fidel Castro

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

— Erica Jong

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

— Charles Bukowski

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty…

— Robert Adamson

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may…

— H. L. Mencken

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

— Eugene Delacroix

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

— Marguerite Young

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet…

— David Biespiel

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

— James Russell Lowell

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau