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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

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 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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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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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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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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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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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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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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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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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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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 have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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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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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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