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Carl Sandburg Quotes: Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
         

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.


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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

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

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It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

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

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