From A Drinking Buddy Of Scott & Zelda

The poet who wrote

In the room
Women come and go
Talking of Michaelangelo

won the Nobel Prize in 1948 when he was sixty years old.
Two years later, T.S. Eliot had this to say:

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things and yet are not decrepit enough to turn them down.








The verse is from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The red ink above links to the text of the poem. For a virtual video of T.S. Eliot reciting Prufrock, click here.



Bloger's Note
The age quote appears on this day in A Book of Days for the Literary Year