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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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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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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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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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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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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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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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Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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