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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Carl August Sandburg
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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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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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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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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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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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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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