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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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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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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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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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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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Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
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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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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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The people know what the land knows.
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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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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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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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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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