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Carl Sandberg

Free verse poems of known American writer Carl August Sandburg celebrated American people, geography, and industry; alongside his six-volume biography

Abraham Lincoln

(1926-1939), his collections of poetry include

Smoke and Steel

(1920).

This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

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“And the Sphinx broke its long silence:"Don't expect too much.”
Carl Sandberg
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“One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men. Some he had seen weeping as they folded burnt and shot-pierced battle flags and laid them on the stacked arms of surrender. As he told his troops his own grief he tried to give them hope to rebuild out of the poverty and ashes to which many would return. Gordon would never forget a Kentucky father who lost two sons, one dying for the North, the other for the South. Over the two graves of his soldier boys the father set up a joint monument inscribed "God knows which was right.”
Carl Sandberg
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“We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”
Carl Sandberg
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