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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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More quotes by Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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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 the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
Carl Sandburg
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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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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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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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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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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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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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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