"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg
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"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
-Carl Sandburg
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"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
-Carl Sandburg
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
-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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"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
-Robert Frost
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
-John Keats
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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