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Carl Sandburg was a prominent American poet, writer, journalist, and editor. Born on January 6, 1878, in Illinois, he passed away on July 22, 1967. His works primarily depicted rural life in America, industrialization, and the working class, with notable works including 'Chicago' and 'The American Songbag'.

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“The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.”

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“The people know what the land knows.”

People Knows Land

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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?”

People Knows World Done Mass Crowds Do You Know Great Work

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“Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.”

People Hard Forget Institutions Decay Forget It

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“Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'”

People Two Moments Reports Poetry Is Nuance

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.”

People Fire Mathematics Smoke Sunset Poetry Is Purple Mystic Sensuous Waffles Pansies

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.”

People Tree Down And

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.”

Book:Home front memo

Source: Home front memo

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”

People Literature Speak Language Sea Ocean Respect Repeats Polite No Respect Colossal Slang

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.”

People Years I Can Remember Strange Thousand Years Ago Curious Thousand Years

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”

People Writing Trying Kind Made Book Literature Promise All Kinds Good Writers

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.”

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.”

People Way Understanding Shocked Insulted

Author:Carl Sandburg

“If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.”

People Ifs America Loses Forget Sight Dissolution

Book:Remembrance Rock

Source: Remembrance Rock

“To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.””

People Said Political Dies Revolution

Author:Carl Sandburg

“There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere”

Author:Carl Sandburg

“People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.”

People Way Helping Stories Remember Lying Clear Saws Happened People Lie

Book:The People, Yes

Source: The People, Yes

About the Author

Born: January 6, 1878
Died: July 22, 1967
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 286

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