"Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe."
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Carl Sandburg quotes (page 13 of 14)
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"All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write."
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"I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song."
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"If I added to their pride of America, I am happy."
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"I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'."
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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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"We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong."
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"There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely."
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"Now I am here - now read me - give me a name."
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"The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone."
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"Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers."
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"I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?"
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"I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs."
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"What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again."
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"There is no song to your singing."
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"What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?"
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"The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable."
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"I am! I have come through! I belong!"
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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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"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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