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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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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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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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The people know what the land knows.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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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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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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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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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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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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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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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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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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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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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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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