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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the...
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
Source: To Chicago Dynamic...
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed...
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my...
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
Source: On plans for...
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Source: The People, Yes, 1936.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Source:...
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. ...
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the...
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no...
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They...
CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight...
Look out how we use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots,...
If she [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to...
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking over
harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then...
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you...
POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
Source: Describing...
I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through...
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned...