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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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 a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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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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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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