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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown

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We will conclude our poetry unit with a WebQuest. Over a period of four days

powow poetry reading. Tomorrow, Saturday May 7, I have the pleasure of

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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold

In April of 2011 we hosted our first annual Youth Poetry Contest!

When asked if I would do something similar for poetry, my first response was

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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

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Poetry, for me, isn't something I go out of my way to read.

[Charlotte High School English 11: 24 Poets (2007)]

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.  ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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They say that age is all in your mind.  The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.  ~Author Unknown
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim

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It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.  ~Author Unknown
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994