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There is no song to your singing.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
Biographer
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Journalist
Musicologist
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Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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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 a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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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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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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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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