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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
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
Love
Happens
Dream
Firsts
Nothing
First

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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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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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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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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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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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God, let me remember all good losers.
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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 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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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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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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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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