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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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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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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 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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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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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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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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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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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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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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