Quote by Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. - Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – 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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. – Carl Sandburg

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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. – Diane Wakoski

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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I dont think its always good to read lots of poetry. – Amber Tamblyn

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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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