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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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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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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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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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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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Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
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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 fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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