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81 " I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision "
― Carl Sandburg
82 " I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;I remember all you forget.I will die as many timesas you make me over again. "
― Carl Sandburg , Selected Poems
83 " I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion. "
84 " FogThe fog comeson little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. "
85 " a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is. "
86 " Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is. "
87 " Why did he write to her, “I can’t live without you?” And why did she write to him “I can’t live without you?” For he went west and she went east and they both lived. "
88 " There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely. "
89 " Time is the coin of your Life.It is the only coin you have,and only you can determinehow it will be spent. Be carefullest you let other people spend it for you. And when you spend it, spend it wisely so that you get the most foryour expenditure. "
90 " Revolt and terror pay a price.Order and law have a cost. "
91 " One PartingWhy did he write to her,"I can't live without you"?And why did she write to him,"I can't live without you"?For he went west, she went east,And they both lived. "
― Carl Sandburg , Honey and Salt
92 " 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. "
93 " Now I am here - now read me - give me a name. "
94 " I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. "
― Carl Sandburg , Cornhuskers
95 " I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds. The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one lasts. "
96 " Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.Let me pry loose old walls.Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. "
97 " The shovel is brother to the gun. "
98 " Once she had thrown a square of birch bark into the fire when her father came in the door. He might then have asked her why her quill pen had shaped a row of straight and crooked question marks and after each one an exclamation point--in rows of ten, perhaps forty running along--?! ?! ?! ?!--arranged in pairs or couples. If he had asked her what is this folderol and what can this nonsense mean she would have said the same she said when shaping them with her pen, one pair, one couple after another. "Each question mark stands for my ignorance and asks if I may learn and know the answer. And each exclamation point stands for my surprise at how little I know, my amazement at my vast ignorance, my utter astonishment at how much there is for me to learn. "
― Carl Sandburg , Remembrance Rock
99 " Wishes left on your lips The mark of their wings. Regrets fly kites in your eyes. "
100 " Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. "