"I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias And slid my fingers amo… - Carl Sandburg

"I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias
And slid my fingers among topics and titles
Looking for you.

And the answer comes slow.
There seems to be no answer.
Old-fashioned Requited Love"

I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it.

Or — the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight — maybe he will know.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl August Sandburg (6 January 1878 –22 July 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist.

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

I know of no task so salutory to the poet who would, first of all, put himself in touch with the resident genius of his own land.

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