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

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Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

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