Carl Sandburg1878–1967The quotations of
Carl Sandburg
American writer and editor
1878–1967
10 quotes, most often on Motivation & Goals, War & Peace and America. Part of the Poets collection.
- Remembrance Rock (1948), Ch. 2, p. 7
Slang is the language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands—and goes to work.
The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.“Washington Monument by Night” in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Incidentals (1904)- “Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry”, in Complete Poems (1950)
- “Jazz Fantasia” (1920)
- “The People, Yes” (1936)
- Chicago (1914)In context
- Fog (1916)In context
- Grass (1918)In context
