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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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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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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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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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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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