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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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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Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'
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Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
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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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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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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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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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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The people know what the land knows.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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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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