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Carl Sandburg
I am an...
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Source: In The...
The republic is...
The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Source: In Correct...
A baby is...
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Source: Remembrance Rock, ch. 2,...
Slang is a...
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Sometime they'll give...
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Source: The People, Yes,...
An expert is...
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
I have written...
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Hope is an...
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
Source: In The Speaker's...
I tell you...
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Source: 'Prairie'
-- Carl Sandburg,...
In the average...
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But...
In these times...
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
It is the...
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
Source: From a collection of...
Poetry is the...
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Source:...
I never made...
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Poetry is a...
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of theunknown and the...
Here is the...
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about...
Nothing happens unless...
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Source: Slabs of the Sunburnt West.
--...
Men of ideas...
Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.
Source: CBS - 'Sunday Morning'...
Poetry is the...
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
All politicians should...
All politicians should have 3 hats -- one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of...