Age Quote by W. H. Auden

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

— Philip Levine

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

— Rita Dove

I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

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

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

— Allison Joseph

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

— Angela Thirkell

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one,…

— Diane Wakoski

Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

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

— James Russell Lowell