Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7156
AUTHOR:
Robert Frost
QUOTATION:
If you can bear at your age the honor of being made president of the United States, I ought to be able at my age to bear the honor of taking some part in your inauguration. I may not be equal to it but I can accept it for my cause—the arts, poetry—now for the first time taken into the affairs of statesmen.
ATTRIBUTION:
Reply to invitation from President-elect John F Kennedy, NY Times 15 Jan 61
