Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.Carl Sandburg
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
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Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the
earth and hold the building to a turning planet.
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They beat in the cool of the night time.
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
Carl Sandburg
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Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
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