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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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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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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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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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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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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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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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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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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
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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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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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