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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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