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Carl Sandburg quotes: My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captivein the universe. My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her. Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions. Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
Carl Sandburg quotes: There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely. There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.
Carl Sandburg quotes: There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The greatest cunning is to have none at all. The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly. Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.
Carl Sandburg quotes: People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened. People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish. Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The peace of great books be for you,Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,Bleach of the light of years held in leather. The peace of great books be for you,
Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
Carl Sandburg quotes: A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I know of no task so salutory to the poet who would, first of all, put himself in touch with the resident genius of his own land. I know of no task so salutory to the poet who would, first of all, put himself in touch with the resident genius of his own land.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Revolt and terror pay a price.Order and law have a cost. Revolt and terror pay a price.
Order and law have a cost.
Carl Sandburg quotes: We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The impact of television on our culture is ... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing. The impact of television on our culture is ... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.
Carl Sandburg quotes: By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time. The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.
Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.
See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Time is a great teacher,Who can live without hope? Time is a great teacher,
Who can live without hope?
Carl Sandburg quotes: I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep. I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Now is the time. It is never too late to start something. Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Wishes left on your lips The mark of their wings. Regrets fly kites in your eyes. Wishes left on your lips
The mark of their wings.
Regrets fly kites in your eyes.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Blowing,BlowingThe gray slabsWill lose youthe winds will flick you awayIn a whiff Blowing,Blowing
The gray slabs
Will lose you
the winds will flick you away
In a whiff
Carl Sandburg quotes: Tell me if the lovers are losers ... tell me if any get more than the lovers. Tell me if the lovers are losers ... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
Carl Sandburg quotes: My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Nothing happens unless first we dream. Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by. Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.
Carl Sandburg quotes: In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
Carl Sandburg quotes: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion. I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.
Carl Sandburg quotes: There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The shovel is brother to the gun. The shovel is brother to the gun.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words. Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it. Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
Carl Sandburg quotes: A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg quotes: 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. 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.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes. Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
Carl Sandburg quotes: A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I am an idealist. I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs. I am an idealist. I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables. Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
Carl Sandburg quotes: To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep ... you will die because the people will awaken'. To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep ... you will die because the people will awaken'.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away? Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
Carl Sandburg quotes: Who else speaks for the Family of Man?They are in tune and stepwith constellations of universal law. Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
They are in tune and step
with constellations of universal law.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer. The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
Carl Sandburg quotes: In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon. In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The people know what the land knows. The people know what the land knows.
Carl Sandburg quotes: We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg quotes: We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong. We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg quotes: There is no song to your singing. There is no song to your singing.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away. The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Death comes once, let it be easy. Death comes once, let it be easy.
Carl Sandburg quotes: To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
Carl Sandburg quotes: And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it
Carl Sandburg quotes: Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg quotes: I am! I have come through! I belong! I am! I have come through! I belong!
Carl Sandburg quotes: Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
Carl Sandburg quotes: There is only one child in the worldand the child's name is all children. There is only one child in the world
and the child's name is all children.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg quotes: What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing? What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
Carl Sandburg quotes: The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.Soldiers tied rags on their feet.Red footprints wrote on the snow ... The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow ...
Carl Sandburg quotes: The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on. The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
Carl Sandburg quotes: You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you. You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
Carl Sandburg quotes: It is the business of little minds to shrink. It is the business of little minds to shrink.
Carl Sandburg quotes: There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted
Carl Sandburg quotes: I've written some poetry I don't understand myself I've written some poetry I don't understand myself
Carl Sandburg quotes: Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak. Tell no man anything, for no man listens
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Night from a railroad car windowis a great, dark, soft thingBroken across with slashes of light. Night from a railroad car window
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light.
Carl Sandburg quotes: The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to. The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg quotes: In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite. In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg quotes: Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

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