Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of theunknown and the unknowable.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.Carl Sandburg
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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The four brothers shall be five and more.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
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Be water birds, be air birds.
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Spools of fire wind and wind.
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