Carl Sandburg Quotes - Page 11

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Poetry, Written

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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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• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Work, Body, Plant

  "Grass" l. 1 (1918)

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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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• 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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• Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Animal, Air

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ties, Long, Black

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nice, Math, Blue

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

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• I been a wanderin'
  Early and late,
  New York City
  To the Golden Gate
  An' it looks like
  I'm never gonna cease my
  Wanderin'.

  Carl Sandburg

  New York, Cities, Looks

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Colossal

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• I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hard Work, Would Be, Fields

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

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

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