! They Only Feel Real When... Comments

As the first two lines are in quotation marks, is this a quote from someone else? I like the image of us as poets burying our bones of wisdom only to dig them up again later. What a wonderful way for us as writers to 'Mellow' what we want to say, to allow ourselves to remember with pleasure that we have that hidden bone, and to know the secret glee of knowing its hiding place...and only we know WHERE! !