Goes on Quote by John Updike

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

“He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can…

— Thomas Harris

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

— James Russell Lowell

“What is it that a young man wants? Where is the central source of that wild fury that boils up in him, that goads…

— Thomas Wolfe

“(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now…

— Virginia Woolf

“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

— John Maynard Keynes

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

“The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and”

— Robert B. Parker

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

— Thomas Wolfe

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

— E. M. Forster

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men…

— Erica Jong