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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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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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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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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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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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