Famous Quotes by Carl Sandburg

  • There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
    The rifle grooves curling with flakes of... More
  • The buffaloes are gone.
    And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. More
  • And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of
    women and children I have... More
  • Hog Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the... More
  • tell me if the lovers are losers . . . tell me if any get more
    than the lovers . . . in the... More
  • Pocahontas’ body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in
    November More
  • The woman named Tomorrow
    sits with a hairpin in her teeth
    and takes her time More
  • and the girls chanted:
    We are the greatest city,
    and the greatest nation:
    nothing... More
  • The feet of the rats
    scribble on the doorsills;
    the hieroglyphs of the rat... More
  • Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
    Shovel them under and let me work—
    I... More
  • Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool
    winding saxophones. Go to it,... More
  • (All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and... More
  • Jack Cade, John Brown, Jesse James,
    There too I could sit down and stop for a while.
    I... More
  • In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. More
  • Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. More
  • Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. More
  • Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed... More
  • A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. More
  • The greatest cunning is to have none at all. More
  • The people will live on.
    The learning and blundering people will live on. More
  • Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    They are in tune and step
    with constellations of... More
  • The mammoth rests between his cyclonic dramas. More
  • Time is a great teacher,
    Who can live without hope? More
  • Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come. More
  • Once having marched
    Over the margins of animal necessity,
    Over the grim line of sheer... More
  • Man is a long time coming.
    Man will yet win.
    Brother may yet line up with brother: More
  • out of great Russia came three
    dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
    for:... More
  • Tell me how to say three things
    and I always get by—gimme a plate of ham and... More
  • The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no... More
  • The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
    Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
    Red... More
  • Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
    He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
    In a snowstorm,... More

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