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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.

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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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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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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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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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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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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