Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.Carl Sandburg
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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My love is a yellow hammer spinning circles in Ohio, Indiana.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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