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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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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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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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