85 ordspråk av Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg föddes den 6 januar 1878 och dog den 22 juli 1967 - US writer
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work

I den amerikanska kongressen hade en liten undersätsig advokat en intensiv debatt med den store Robert Toombs. Toombs: Jag skulle kunna vika in öronen på dig och sluka dig hel och hållen. Den lille mannen gav igen: - Och om du gjorde det skulle du ha mera hjärna i magen än vad du har i huvudet.

Slang är ett språk som tar av sig kavajen, spottar i nävarna och sätter igång att arbeta.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

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

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence

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

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

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?

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.

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