Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling…

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give...

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give...

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what...

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what...

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and...

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and...

The man who fails while trying to do good has more honor than he who...

The man who fails while trying to do good has more honor than he who...

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become...

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become...

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...