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• To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

  Carl Sandburg

  Glasses, Rooms, Fool

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

  Carl Sandburg

  Pain, Doors, Giving

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Moving

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• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  Carl Sandburg

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Freedom, Men, Gone

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.628, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

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  Letting Go, Song, Stars

  Carl Sandburg, “Stars, Songs, Faces”

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• Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

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  Law, Order, Pay

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

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  Cheer, Giving, Literature

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Funny, Humor, Democracy

  Carl Sandburg (1943). “Home front memo”

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• Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

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  Two, Purple, Yesterday

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Curves, Rainbow

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.699, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sunset, Fire, Purple

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

  Carl Sandburg

  Loneliness, Men, Rocks

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• Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

  Carl Sandburg

  Long, Looks, Use

  1922 Slabs of the SunburntWest,'Primer Lesson'.

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• There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Men, Stronger

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.447, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

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  Dream, Dying, Trying

  Carl Sandburg (1978). “Breathing Tokens”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Strong, Brother

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.449, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

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  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

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  Home, Long, Experts

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• Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Freedom, Science, Men

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• Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

  Carl Sandburg

  Self Reflection, Contemplation, Introspection

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

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  Stars, Sunset, Prairie

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

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• Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dust, Ashes, Whiskey

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

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  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

  Carl Sandburg

  Night, Men, America

  Interview with Frederick Van Ryn, This Week Magazine, p. 11, January 04, 1953.

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