I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.