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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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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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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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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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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The people know what the land knows.
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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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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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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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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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The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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