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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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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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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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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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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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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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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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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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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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