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Grace Paley Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007

Birthday: December 11

Death: August 22

This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

- Grace Paley

topic: Summer, Spring, Heart, Last Summer, Aspens, Winter Woods, Hemlock

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