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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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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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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
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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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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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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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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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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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 tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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There is no song to your singing.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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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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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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