Beauty and aging

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When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.

Yoda

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

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Topic

Beauty and aging Aging

Speaker

Yoda

Actor

Frank Oz

Source

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Science fiction (film) Epic Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 104

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Topic

Beauty and aging

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Sonnet 104 Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 104, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 104.

As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.

Joseph Campbell (poet)

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Topic

Beauty and aging Old age

Author

Joseph Campbell (poet)

Source

The Old Woman

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Campbell, Joseph. "The Old Woman." Irishry. Maunsel & Company, 1913, st. 1.