It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.”
“Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.”