Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh … - Carl Sandburg

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

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