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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
Baffling
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Gone
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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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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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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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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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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
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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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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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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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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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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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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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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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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