Carl Sandburg Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

33 Famous Quotes by Carl Sandburg
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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.”
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”
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“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
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“The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.”
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“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
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“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
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“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
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