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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. - Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg

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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. – Carl Sandburg

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Anger
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Carl Sandburg
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We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry
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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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Poetry
[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Poetry

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. – James Laughlin

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Poetry

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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. – George Herbert

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