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Carl Sandburg Quotes: Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
         

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.


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