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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 an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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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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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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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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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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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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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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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 sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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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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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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