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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Journalist
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Carl August Sandburg
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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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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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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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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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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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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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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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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