American - Poet | January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg
EthicsSayingMoralsWrongKnowOut
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
New Year'sDoubtYouPartyWild
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
WorkLanguageHandsUpSlangGoes
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
NatureDeepGentleSpreadDigSplit
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
WorkLiveWork HardHellDieDamn
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
DreamsDreamNothingFirstHappens
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
LifeMistakeMy LifeDoneGrammar
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
LuckGoChicagoTryWouldEight
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.
StyleGoWhyWayMy OwnSee
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
LoveYourselfFenceDownNeighbor
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
FutureLiveMoving OnPastTomorrow
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
AgeWomanCandidWorldTreatBetter
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