Carl Sandburg Short Quotes

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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.

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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

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Love your neighbour as yourself but don't take down your fence.

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

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The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.

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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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Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

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There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

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The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

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My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

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Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

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Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

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There is only one child in the world and the Child's name is All Children.

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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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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

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