Famous quotes containing the words dark, age and/or book:
“Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:
However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I haven’t read one book about
A book or memorized one plot,
Or found a mind I did not doubt,
I learned one date. And then forgot.
And one by one the solid scholars
Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)