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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 section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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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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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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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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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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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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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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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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