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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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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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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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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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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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I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
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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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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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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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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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