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Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
Source: Primer Lessons (1922)0
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Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots. by : Carl Sandburg