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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. - Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. – Carl Sandburg

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg

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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry

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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison

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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. – Tracy K. Smith

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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding ones own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. – Edward Dowden

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