Carl Sandburg Quotes - Page 6

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• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor
  and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nature, Moving, Cat

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hands, Generosity, Given

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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• What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Forever, What If

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• Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

  Carl Sandburg

  Facts, Illusion, Shuffling

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

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• Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

  Carl Sandburg

  People

  Carl Sandburg (1943). “Home front memo”

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• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Mistake, Done, Made

  "A Dictionary of Literary Quotations‎". Book by Meic Stephens, 1990.

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• Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Poetry, Invisible

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Full Moon, Lonesome

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.665, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

  Carl Sandburg

  Math, Numbers, Pigeons

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea, Land, Wish

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• There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Names, World

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

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• Nothing happens... but first a dream.

  Carl Sandburg

  Love, Dream, Firsts

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• out of great Russia came three
  dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
  for: Bread, Peace, Land.

  Carl Sandburg

  Gun, Russia, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Brother, Tired, Long

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.504, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

  Carl Sandburg

  Beautiful, Knowing, Lasts

  Carl Sandburg (2000). “Cornhuskers”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Poetry Is

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• I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

  Carl Sandburg

  Age, World, Aging

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• Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wisdom, Men, Lips

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Ducks

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

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• Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

  Carl Sandburg

  Song, Flair, Capture

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Men, Genius

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• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Years, Two

  "Grass" l. 7 (1918)

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• Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

  Carl Sandburg

  Math, Hands, Numbers

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hard Work, Writing, Past

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