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

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg

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Grammar
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. – Carl Sandburg

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Election Day
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

The poet is like the prince of clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking. – Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now Ill be more contented working in an office than ever before. – Hart Crane

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Poetry

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Poetry

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If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler

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Science

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

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I dont know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us dont want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and were not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. – Tony Campolo

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legal