X. J. Kennedy Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. August 21, 1929
Birthday: August 21
Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.
source: X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press
topic: Girl, Carpe Diem, White
