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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
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
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Carl August Sandburg
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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 an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
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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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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 had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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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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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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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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God, let me remember all good losers.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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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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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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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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