The Creative Art Of Growing Old-”people get ready.”

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/21/133117175/lastingness-the-creative-art-of-growing-old

In 1928, when poet William Butler Yeats was in his 60s, he wrote “Sailing to Byzantium,” in which he laments, An aged man is but a paltry thing / A tattered coat upon a stick. Despite his harsh characterization of old age, Yeats himself continued to write late into his life.