Aging Quote by T. E. Lawrence

“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated…

— T.S. Eliot

“It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not…

— David Falkner

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for the sake…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It was fear. Fear that, after all the years of protecting his health, his heart, his mind, setting bedtimes and boundaries, giving warnings about…

— Lisa Unger

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing…

— Anonymous

“The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end.…

— Alberto Moravia

“All his life had been based on this hostile kind of strength; a strength that viewed the world as a thing to master, to…

— Don Berry

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys