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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
Biographer
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Journalist
Musicologist
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Trade Unionist
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Galesburg
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Carl August 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.
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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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