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Carl Sandburg
(1878 - 1967 / Illinois / United States)
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207 poems of Carl Sandburg
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''Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool
winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Jazz Fantasia (l. 1). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace...
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(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.)
I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers:
'Omah...
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Limited (l. 3-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pr...
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''Jack Cade, John Brown, Jesse James,
There too I could sit down and stop for a while.
I think I could tell their headstones:
"God, let me remember all good losers."''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Losers (l. 16-19). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ...
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''In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. New York Post (Sept. 9, 1960).
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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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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. New York Times (Feb. 13, 1959).
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''Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Prayers of Steel (l. 5-6). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, ...
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''Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Quoted in The Reader's Digest (Pleasantville, New York, February, 1978).
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''A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Remembrance Rock, ch. 2 (1948).
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''The greatest cunning is to have none at all.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. The People, Yes (1936).
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''The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.''
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. The People, Yes (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Unive...
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