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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Carl August Sandburg
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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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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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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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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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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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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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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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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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have 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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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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