Carl Sandburg Quotes
Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, Poet and political biographer, "Primer Lessons", 1922
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A Russian communist official was touring the U. S. The congressman took him to a modern supermarket in the Washington DC area and the Russian accused him of having it built for his tour.
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Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
