Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.Carl Sandburg
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg
I am the cause of the Sphinx,
The voiceless, baffled, patient Sphinx.
Carl Sandburg
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
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