Carl Sandburg Quotes - Page 11

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• I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fog, Careers, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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• There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Consolation, Ifs

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Wonder, Enjoyed

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• There is no song to your singing.

  Carl Sandburg

  Song, Singing

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

  Carl Sandburg

  Singing, Done, Goes On

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am! I have come through! I belong!

  Carl Sandburg

  Birth

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Dust, Poetry

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.12, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

  Carl Sandburg

  Reading, Men, Conformity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Poetry, Written

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• There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Understanding, Literature

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Mankind

  The People, Yes pt. 107 (1936)

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• Time is a great teacher,
  Who can live without hope?

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Teacher, Time

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

  Carl Sandburg

  Colossal

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