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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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. – 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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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. – Asghar Farhadi

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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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