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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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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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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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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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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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