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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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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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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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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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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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