There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
More Quotes from Carl Sandburg:
Speak softly-the sacred cows may hear.Carl Sandburg
I answered:
The whole world was mist once long ago and some day
it will all go back to mist,
Our skulls and lungs are more water than bone and
tissue
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last
answers
Go running back to dust and mist.
Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
Carl Sandburg
They beat in the cool of the night time.
Carl Sandburg
Love stands against fire and flood and much bitterness, would only initiate a second misunderstanding, and bickerings with lapses of silence.
Carl Sandburg
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