The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
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Source: Chicago Poems
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.”
“Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.”
Source: Remembrance Rock
Source: Selected poems
Source: Poems
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected poems
Source: Chicago Poems
Source: The Complete Poems
“You must expect to be in several lost causes before you die.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected poems
“Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“It is the business of little minds to shrink.”
Source: Remembrance Rock
“The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.”
“Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.”
“Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.”
“Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.”
“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.”
Source: Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg