Gerald Brenan said this quote

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

~ Gerald Brenan

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

~ Gerald Brenan

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

~ Gerald Brenan

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

~ Gerald Brenan