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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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 a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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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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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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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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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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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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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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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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There is no song to your singing.
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The people know what the land knows.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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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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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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