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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"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."
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