Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
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Youth And AgeWilliam Butler Yeats
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And so, by night, while we were all at rest,
I think the coming sped the parting guest.Henry van Dyke
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
Hesiod
Those dying here, the lonely
Forgotten by the world,
Our tongue becomes for them
The language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
And many years have passed,
On a great Campo di Fiori
Rage will kindle at a poet's word.Czeslaw Milosz
And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.
Ivo Andric
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.
Robertson Davies
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