Concerned Quote by Jonathan W. Galassi

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Philip Levine

My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How…

— Connie Wanek

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

— Eileen Myles

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas…

— W. H. Auden

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

— Matthew Zapruder

“(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

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

— Allison Joseph

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new…

— Anonymous

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you…

— J. G. Holland

“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).”

— Anonymous