“For an old man, a canoe is ideal—he need only sit still and move his arms. My first boat was an Old Town green canoe, and my last boat is the same. In between there were many.”
E. B. White
more infosource: Letters of E. B. White, rev. edition edited by Martha White (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007), 642.
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notes: letter to Mrs. Elizabeth Donaldson dated August 27, 1981 (White was 82 years old)
“…I’ve always promised myself I’m going to spend my declining years just taking walks in Rome. Nothing could be more profitable, I think, for the last 20 years of one’s life.”
Elizabeth Bishop
more infosource: letter to Robert Lowell, dated Sunday, July 24, 1948, in Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 45.
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