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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
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There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.
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Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought.
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Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Love your neighbour as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
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Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.
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Have you a criminal lawyer in this burg?
We think so, but we haven't been able to prove it on him yet.
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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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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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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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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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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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The street cars swing at a curve,
The middle class passengers witness low life.
The car windows frame low life all day in pictures.
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It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.
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Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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If she [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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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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