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• I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Done, World

  "I Am the People, the Mob" l. 1 (1916)

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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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• I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.119, University of Illinois Press

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• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Class, Textbooks

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• Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

  Carl Sandburg

  Names, Giving, Give Me

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Sitting

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.9, University of Illinois Press

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• I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baseball, Song, Player

  Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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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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• I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Literature, Coming Out

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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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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• 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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• You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Important, Born, Knows

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• The shovel is the brother to the gun.

  Carl Sandburg

  Brother, Military, Gun

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• Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Fingers

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• So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strong, Cities, Giving

  "Chicago" l. 10 (1916)

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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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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Blow, Night, Destiny

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.156, University of Illinois Press

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Poetry Is

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• The woman named Tomorrow
  sits with a hairpin in her teeth
  and takes her time

  Carl Sandburg

  Teeth, Tomorrow

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Science, Pounds

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Doe, Snickers

  "The Lawyers Know Too Much" l. 16 (1920)

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• Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Stars, Foam

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

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• Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

  Carl Sandburg

  Static, Poetry Is, Arrangements

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

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