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Quote by Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who loo

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. – Carl Sandburg

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. – Carl Sandburg

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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

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As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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