Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Quotes by Carl Sandburg
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.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down.
And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

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