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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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