Age Quote by William Shakespeare

“At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if…

— Margaret Atwood

That grand old poem called Winter

— Henry David Thoreau

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, Must the youngest open the oldest hills Through the door of the birds,…

— Susan Cooper

“One by one the lights burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends. Then there was a dark house made once of…

— John Crowley

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold…

— Kate Forsyth

“It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by…

— Kenneth Grahame

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in…

— Henry James

Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you…

— Robert Graves

“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“When memory of bygone days My spirit would detain, Down long and often trodden ways I travel the past again. Above your house are…

— Anonymous