"Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration."

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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

— Elizabeth Drew