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Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and ans...

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They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for th...

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One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the wo...

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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women...

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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who ...

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Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and...

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To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

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Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

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Louis SimpsonPeople Live Here: Selected Poems 1948-1983