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Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Janet Fitch
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1955; activity date not established; Wikidata Q3161920, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161920 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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