"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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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."

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

"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."

"Every old poem is sacred."

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"I once aged 90 years old in one episode."

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

"I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away."

"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."

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