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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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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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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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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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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 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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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
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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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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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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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