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Every old poem is sacred.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

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

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.