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Karle Wilson Baker
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“Some days my thoughts are just cocoons—all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the gray woods of my mind;And other days they drift and shine—such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.”
Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Days", in B. J. Thompson, ed. Silver Pennies (1925), p. 114
“Let me grow lovely, growing old— So many fine things do: Laces, and ivory, and gold, And silks need not be new;And there is healing in old trees. Old streets a glamour hold: Why may not I, as well as these, Grow lovely, growing old?”
Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Let Me Grow Lovely", in The Salisbury Post (April 11, 1923), p. 4