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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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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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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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We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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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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There is no song to your singing.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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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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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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