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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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The people know what the land knows.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
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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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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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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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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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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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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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