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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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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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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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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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Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
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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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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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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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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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There is no song to your singing.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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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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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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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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