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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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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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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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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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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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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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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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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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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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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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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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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