Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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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.Carl Sandburg
I know how much you know about Jesus.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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Your eyes and the valley are memories.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg
The four brothers shall be five and more.
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