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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
Carl Sandburg
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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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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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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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Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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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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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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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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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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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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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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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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