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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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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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The people know what the land knows.
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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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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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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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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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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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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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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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