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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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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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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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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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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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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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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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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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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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