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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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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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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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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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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 greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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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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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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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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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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