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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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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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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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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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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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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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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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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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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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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