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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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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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