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Carl Sandburg

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."

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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

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"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."
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