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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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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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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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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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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