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Carl Sandburg quotes

American Poet January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967

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Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."From "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except..."
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all..."
I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many timesas you make me over again. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance..."
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its..."
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it..."
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "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
Carl Sandburg quote: "Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two..."
Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits. Carl Sandburg
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the..."
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. Carl Sandburg
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
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
Carl Sandburg quote: "Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and..."
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "Now I am here - now read me - give me a name."
Now I am here - now read me - give me a name. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of..."
There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. Carl Sandburg

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