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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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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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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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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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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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