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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.
Carl Sandburg
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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 slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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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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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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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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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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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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God, let me remember all good losers.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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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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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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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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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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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 been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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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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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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