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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
"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?"
"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
"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."
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
"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."
"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."
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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