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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

— Carl Sandburg Incidentals (1904)

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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.

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

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

Remembrance Rock (1948)

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Incidentals (1904)

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

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