Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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My love is a graybird living in the eaves of a Michigan house all winter.Carl Sandburg
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know
Carl Sandburg
By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and
has a soul.
Carl Sandburg
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
The rose flesh of life shriveled from all
faces.
Carl Sandburg
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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