Carl Sandburg Quotes - Page 4

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• Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

  Carl Sandburg

  Beautiful, Summer, Memories

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Single, America, Creative

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time‎" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 448), 1977.

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• Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
  They are in tune and step
  with constellations of universal law.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Law, Unity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.616, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Writing, Learning

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Years, Cities, Differences

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• Under the harvest moon,
  When the soft silver
  Drips shimmering
  Over the garden nights,
  Death, the gray mocker,
  Comes and whispers to you
  As a beautiful friend
  Who remembers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

  Carl Sandburg

  Stars, Sunset, Prairie

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.362, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

  Carl Sandburg

  Destiny, America, Balance

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• In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Average, Stories

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Stars, Night, Soul

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Laughing, World

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• There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Men, Names

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

  Carl Sandburg

  Technology, Watches, Machines

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Veterans Day, Tests, Thank You Veteran

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• Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Barriers, Syllables

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Want, Mud

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Writing, People

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Faith, War, Men

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• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
  The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
  A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
  corner of it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wall, Gun, Rifles

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, Editors, Two

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.146, University of Illinois Press

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• To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Political, Revolution

  "The People, Yes".

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• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Girl, Writing, Hair

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• Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Language, Plastic

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• When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sports, Tired, Night

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Hate, Design

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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