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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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. – Carl Sandburg

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respect
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

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Time
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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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Money
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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Poetry

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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Poetry

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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesnt help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? – Beah Richards

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My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift. – Rory Bremner

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