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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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 remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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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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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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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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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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