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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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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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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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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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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 marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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