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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?'
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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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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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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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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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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