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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. - Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

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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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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. – Carl Sandburg

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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[P]oetry… the spontaneous fusion of hitherto unrelated words. Such things must take place in your own head, by your own chemistry. – Marie Emilie Gilchrist (1893–1989), Writing Poetry: Suggestions for Young

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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

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What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread? – Louis Untermeyer

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M.Grundler

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I do love to eavesdrop. Its inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. – Lynda Barry

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