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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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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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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.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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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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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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