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The people know what the land knows.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Musicologist
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Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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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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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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