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Carl Sandburg

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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.


— Carl Sandburg


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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.


— Carl Sandburg


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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.


— Carl Sandburg


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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.


— Carl Sandburg


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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.


— Carl Sandburg


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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.


— Carl Sandburg


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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.


— Carl Sandburg


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Nothing happens unless first we dream.


— Carl Sandburg


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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.


— Carl Sandburg


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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.


— Carl Sandburg


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About Carl Sandburg

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Did you know about Carl Sandburg?

Pete Seeger who calls it a "landmark" saw it "almost as soon as it came out. Sandburg supported the civil rights movement and contributed to the NAACP. His Complete Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.

Mencken called Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat". L. H.

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