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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
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