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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"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."
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"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
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"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."
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"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."
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"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."
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"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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"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."
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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."
People
"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."
Time
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
Creativity
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"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."
Books
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
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