“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.” NeedsChildrenSeemsAgeDiesNaturalCuriosityHungerIgnorantExplanation Author:Mahlon Hoagland
“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.” KnowsYearsSometimesYoungDiesGrowsLosesAgingIgnorantGrandfatherGlimpsePondsMidsummer Book:The Selected Poems of Donald Hall Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall