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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

Carl Sandburg
Pride, America, Ifs

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

Carl Sandburg
Running, Dust, Poetry
Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.12, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Carl Sandburg
Writing, Animal, Air
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg
Literature
Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

Carl Sandburg
Dream, Dust, Blood
Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg
Art, Poetry, Written

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Carl Sandburg
Unseen, Pendulums, Poetry Is
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg
Baby, Miracle, Goes On

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Carl Sandburg
Writing, Style, Literature
Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.138, University of Illinois Press

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Carl Sandburg
Newspapers, Happens

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Carl Sandburg
Literature, Guidance, Enough
Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.33, University of Illinois Press

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Carl Sandburg
Singing, Done, Goes On
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is no song to your singing.

Carl Sandburg
Song, Singing
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Carl Sandburg
Fog, Careers, Literature
Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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