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Carl Sandburg Quotes

«Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.»
«I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.»
«Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.»
«Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air»
«To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Work | Keywords: damn, die hard
«Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.»
«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.»
«There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud»
«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.»
«One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude»

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