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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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Carl August Sandburg
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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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