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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
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
Writer
Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
Happens
Dream
Firsts
Nothing
First
Love

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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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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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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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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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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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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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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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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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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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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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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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