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I am! I have come through! I belong!
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
Carl Sandburg
What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
Carl Sandburg
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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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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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Carl Sandburg
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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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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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
Carl Sandburg
In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
Carl Sandburg
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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