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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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. – Carl Sandburg

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I know Im not a wordsmith. And I dont write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because its really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels. – Candace Bushnell

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To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. – Diane Wakoski

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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