{"id":4073,"date":"2015-11-22T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2015-11-22T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:42:31","slug":"if-they-ever-were-there-they-are-there-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/if-they-ever-were-there-they-are-there-still\/","title":{"rendered":"If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still!<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Autocrat<\/p>\n

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Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still!\u00a0~\u00a0The Autocrat of the Breakfast …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[849,351,632,534],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-photos","tag-aging-quotes","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-poetry-quotes","tag-the-autocrat-of-the-breakfast-table"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t