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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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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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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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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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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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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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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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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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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 woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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