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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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Journalist
Musicologist
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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The people know what the land knows.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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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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The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
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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 the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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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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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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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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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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