Children Quote by H. L. Mencken

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

— H. L. Mencken

A poet over 30 is pathetic

— H. L. Mencken

I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very…

— Edward Hirsch

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Philip Levine

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

— T. S. Eliot

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— James Russell Lowell

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer…

— Ezra Pound

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

— Marguerite Young

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

— Allison Joseph