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by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

SPEAK, sir, and be wise.
Speak choosing your words, sir, like an old woman over a bushel of apples.




Quotes of the Day

Never fight an inanimate object.
• P. J. O'Rourke


Poems of the Day
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    Praise In Summer
    by Richard Wilbur
    Obscurely yet most surely called to praise, As sometimes summer calls us all, I said The hills are heavens full of branching ways Where star-nosed moles fly overhead the dead;