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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.
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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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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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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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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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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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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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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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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