Quote by Carl Sandburg
We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from t

We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. – Carl Sandburg

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best
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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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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

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Poetry

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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Poetry

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. – David O. McKay

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Mindful eating is eating with intention while paying attention. – Kati Konersman

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Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago — the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled. – Jane Mersky Leder

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It is the final test of a gentleman—his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. – William Lyon Phelps, quoted in Golden Book Magazine, July 1935

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