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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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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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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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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 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.
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The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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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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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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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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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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