Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:
““You are old, Father William,” the young man cried,
“And life must be hastening away;
You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death:
Now tell me the reason, I pray.”
“I am cheerful, young man,” Father William replied;
“Let the cause thy attention engage;
In the days of my youth I remembered my God,
And He hath not forgotten my age.””
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)
“An air lambent with adult enterprise ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)