Jane HirshfieldAge in itself gives substance – what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer’s mind.
About This Quote
Terrance Hayes is a writer of prose and poetry, and the winner of American Book Award for his poetry book of short stories, "A Late Awakening." In this quote, he talks about the beauty that comes from aging. Age brings wisdom and more time to learn from mistakes that one can make in a shorter period of time. The older a person gets the wiser they tend to become.
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