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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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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 glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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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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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
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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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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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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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