Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs...

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs...

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...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

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...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

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

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

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard...

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard...

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly...

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly...

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

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

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look...

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look...

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

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

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 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...

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...

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be...

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be...