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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
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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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