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

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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

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"Every old poem is sacred."

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"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."

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"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

"Every old poem is sacred."

"Old foxes want no tutors."

Explore more quotes by Philip Levine

"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."

"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."

"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."

"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

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"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."