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The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

Hal Borland

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Hal Borland
Age: 77 †
Born: 1900
Born: May 14
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
Writer
Certain
Near
Pasture
Back
Spring
Edition
Live
Aren
Meadow
Real
Paper
Issued
Every
Longer
Pastures
Written
Meadows
Read
April
Become
Poems
Revised

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