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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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