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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.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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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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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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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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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
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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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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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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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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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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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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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