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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.
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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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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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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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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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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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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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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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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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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