As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a career but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who...
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.