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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat.
It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Is it a terrible thing to be lonely?
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
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The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
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The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
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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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Love your neighbour as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
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The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,
"What are those?"
"Soldiers."
"What are soldiers?"
"They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can."
The girl held still and studied.
"Do you know … I know something?"
"Yes, what is it you know?"
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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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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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.
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Born:
January 6, 1878
Died:
July 22, 1967
(aged 89)
Bio:
Carl Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Known for:
The American Songbag (1927)
The People, Yes (1936)
Rootabaga Stories (1922)
Remembrance Rock (1948)
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