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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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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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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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Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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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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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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