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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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 exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
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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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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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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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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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