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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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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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There is no song to your singing.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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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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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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Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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