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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

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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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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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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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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