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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing 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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Carl August Sandburg
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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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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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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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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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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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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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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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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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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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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