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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight bla

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg

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

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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. – Carl Sandburg

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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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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of ones geographic landscape, sometimes out of ones cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. – Diane Wakoski

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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