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• Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

  Bob Dylan

  Sky, Mad, Naked

  'Chimes of Freedom' (1964 song)

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• Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  Alafair Burke

  Etiquette, Wells

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.303, Macmillan

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• He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, School

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

  Howard Pyle

  Eggs, Done

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