Quote by Carl Sandburg
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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. – 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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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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Theres not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. – Anthony Hecht

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. – John Andrew Holmes

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I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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