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The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

Carl Sandburg
Inspirational, Peace, War
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Carl Sandburg
Peace, Heart, Men
CARL SANDBURG (1954). “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS”

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.

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