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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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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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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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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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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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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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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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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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