Carl Sandburg Quotes About Giving

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  • Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

    "Chicago" l. 10 (1916)
  • Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

    "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.
  • Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

    Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  • Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

    War  
    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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