Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the…

— Gabriele d'Annunzio

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts…

— Joy Covey

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty;…

— John Dryden

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

— Will Cuppy

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

— Kenneth Koch

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

— Umberto Eco

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

— Anonymous

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

— George Farquhar