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

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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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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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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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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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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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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