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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
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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 statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
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We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
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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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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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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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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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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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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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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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