Middle age Quote by Sandi Toksvig

“(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

“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

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

— Janet Fitch

“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~ Ogden Nash”

— Ogden Nash

“There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.”

— Fennel Hudson

“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.”

— Alison Bechdel

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

— Richard Armour

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

— John Updike

“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

“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the…

— Vivian Gornick

“When I am old I shall become an itinerant poet and wear a straw hat and never worry about love again.   Tuesday,”

— Zen Cho