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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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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
Carl Sandburg
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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
Carl Sandburg
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
Carl Sandburg
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God, let me remember all good losers.
Carl Sandburg
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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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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
Carl Sandburg
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
Carl Sandburg
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg