Quote by Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why t

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

Other quotes by Carl Sandburg

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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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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Future
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Poetry
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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. – Tracy K. Smith

Category:
Poetry

As for how criticism of Keats poetry relates to criticism of my own work, Ill leave that for others to decide. – Jane Campion

Category:
Poetry

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. – J. K. Rowling

Category:
Poetry

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

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Poetry

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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. – James Allen

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inspirational

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. – Author Unknown

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Election Day

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. – Henry Ward Beecher

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I love romantic comedies. – Lil Romeo

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Romantic