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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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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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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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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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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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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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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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