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Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. — James Crumley

My grandmother
had no time for old,
no matter how her face crinkled
or her days folded like an apron around
her middle. — April Michelle Bratten

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky

We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing — Eavan Boland

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made. — Joseph Devlin

What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity — Robert Browning

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul. — Richard Jackson

Today I bumped into you again. You seemed like that flower long forgotten in the old diary. — Avijeet Das

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. — May Sarton

Come on cats, let's go.
Let's teach those old dog cheap trick beatniks some new kicks and bottle up and blow. — Harry Whitewolf

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes. — David Pietrusza

Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West — Donika Kelly

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. — Dejan Stojanovic

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace — Robert Penn Warren

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. — William Shakespeare

Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others — Leonard Cohen

We are all old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor. — Robert Lowell

You are never too old to become younger! — Mae West

Old words are reborn with new faces. — Criss Jami

We live in an old chaos of the sun. — Wallace Stevens

And when I feel
the masks beneath
crumble and fade with
time I build new ones
to replace the old.
"Masks"- Sins Within — Shay Leigh

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. — Dejan Stojanovic

Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal

That old man over there
Is selling trinkets made of stones
That old woman the entire world
In a map without any hole! — Avijeet Das

The past is useless
to me now:
an old suitcase
with mould in the lining,
heavy even when empty. — Robyn Sarah

The bear and I --
we rise like a windstorm
to witness these old trees talk. — Vivian Demuth

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take what the old-church
found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered. — Hilda Doolittle

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking — Robert Hass

What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker? — Rudyard Kipling

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. — Bindi Irwin

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

Oblivion cures the old wounds. — Dejan Stojanovic

Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan

A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare

I wanna make growing old with you
the last poem I ever have to write — Michael Biondi

Far over misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings. — Robert James Waller

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. — Izaak Walton

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

Look, moon
I turned silver for you. — Sanober Khan

For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold. — John Dryden

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept — T. E. Hulme

Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly. — Phar West Nagle

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one. — Dana Scott

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell

It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now. — Ian Anderson

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
From the poem Mad Girl's Love Song — Sylvia Plath

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. — Greg Bear

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler

There is poetry of sailing as old as the world, — E.L. James

All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved. — Anne Rice

Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! — Dante Alighieri

Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago. — William Wordsworth

We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ... — Denise Levertov

Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water — Basho Matsuo

There's too much risk in loving,'
the young boy said,
'no,'
said the old man,
'there's too much risk in not. — Atticus Poetry

Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt

Reflections they give me
That my mirror does not
They know the new me
Not the old me
That I am not — Kathleen Marie

Beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski

This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds. — Matsuo Basho

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock. — Delmore Schwartz

She tasted of coffee and day old poetry. — R. YS Perez

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. — Thom Gunn