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Poetry Is The Opening And Closing Of A Door

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

Carl Sandburg

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Quote from “Caged Bird” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/41917

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom

Maya Angelou

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Quote from “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/40664

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality

Emily Dickinson

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Death

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Quote from “Poor Richard's Almanack”

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing

Benjamin Franklin

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Inspirational

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Quote from “"Old Jonathan's" Jottings; Or, Light And Lessons From Daily Life (1869)”

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

- David Alfred Doudney

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