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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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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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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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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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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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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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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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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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The people know what the land knows.
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