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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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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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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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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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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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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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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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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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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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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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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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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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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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