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Letter "C" » Carl Sandburg Quotes
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«And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossoms, cotton, gulf, Gulf stream, imperial, Lullabies, lullaby, murmur, murmurs, release, run across, sea level, The Imperial, toward the sea, valley, watermelon, watermelons, wheat
«Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arithmetic, blue sky, comes out, look out
«(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders»
«A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.»
«All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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Action,
Failure
| Keywords:
doomed, equivalent
«Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.»
«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.»
«Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.»
«The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.»
«Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.»
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