"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."
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"I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain."
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"The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid."
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"And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song."
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"I play better tennis because the court is there."
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"Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself."
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"I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of."
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"Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right."
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"End is a gloomy word."
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"The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think."
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"I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi."
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"Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words."
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"In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng."
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"I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language."
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"Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!"
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"I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be."
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"Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within."
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"Create and stir other people to create."
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"One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within."
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"Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun."
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