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Famous Carl Sandburg Quotes
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Honey and Salt
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg