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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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Carl August Sandburg
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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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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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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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Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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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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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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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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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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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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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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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
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