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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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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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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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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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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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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.
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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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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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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