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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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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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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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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
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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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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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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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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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