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Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Carl Sandburg
Struggle, Flower, Roots
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.