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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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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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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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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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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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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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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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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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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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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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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
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