Uploaded on February 8, 2012
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; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling—
Look out how you use proud words.
—Carl Sandburg
Favorite Poems Old and New
edited by Helen Ferris
02.08.2024: There have been too many proud words in my life.