Carl Sandburg Quotes about Giving

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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Carl Sandburg

Cheer, Giving, Literature

"Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

Carl Sandburg

Pain, Doors, Giving

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

Peace, War, Giving

The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

Carl Sandburg

Names, Giving, Give Me

Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Carl Sandburg

Strong, Cities, Giving

"Chicago" l. 10 (1916)

Carl Sandburg Quotes about Giving

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