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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

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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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Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

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Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

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I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

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Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.


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Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

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Carl Sandburg

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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:
  1. The American Songbag (1927)
  2. The People, Yes (1936)
  3. Rootabaga Stories (1922)
  4. Remembrance Rock (1948)
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