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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: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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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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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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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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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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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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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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There is no song to your singing.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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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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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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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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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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