Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

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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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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

quote by Carl Sandburg (1916)
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Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

poem by Carl Sandburg
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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