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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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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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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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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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There is no song to your singing.
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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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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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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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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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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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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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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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Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
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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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