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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
Age
"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
Love
"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
Poetry
"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
Writing
"I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them."
Talent
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
Being
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
Favorite
"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."
People
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
Poetry
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."
Writing
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