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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. – Carl Sandburg

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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. – James Laughlin

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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