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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
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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 opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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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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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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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.
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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
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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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