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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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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
Carl Sandburg
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
Carl Sandburg
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
Carl Sandburg
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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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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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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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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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
Carl Sandburg
A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
Carl Sandburg
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
Carl Sandburg
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.”
Carl Sandburg
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
Carl Sandburg
