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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.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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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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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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