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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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Carl August Sandburg
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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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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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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
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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 the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
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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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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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