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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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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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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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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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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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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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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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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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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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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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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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