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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Journalist
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Poet
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Trade Unionist
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Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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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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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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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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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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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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The people know what the land knows.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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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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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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