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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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