Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Old age is the verdict of life.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.