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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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There is no song to your singing.
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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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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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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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