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Carl Sandburg


Born
in Galesburg, Illinois, The United States
January 06, 1878

Died
July 22, 1967

Genre


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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Quotes by Carl Sandburg  (?)
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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
Carl Sandburg

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
Carl Sandburg

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
Carl Sandburg

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Who is your favorite poet?

 
  52 votes, 9.2%

 
  47 votes, 8.3%

Sylvia Plath
 
  29 votes, 5.1%

 
  25 votes, 4.4%

 
  22 votes, 3.9%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)
 
  22 votes, 3.9%

 
  18 votes, 3.2%

William Blake (write-in)
 
  17 votes, 3.0%

 
  16 votes, 2.8%

 
  16 votes, 2.8%

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  16 votes, 2.8%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes
 
  15 votes, 2.7%

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  15 votes, 2.7%

Mary Oliver (write-in)
 
  13 votes, 2.3%

Robert frost (write-in)
 
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Franz Kafka (write-in)
 
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Lord Byron (write-in)
 
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  9 votes, 1.6%

I'm not a fan of poetry
 
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Bob Dylan
 
  7 votes, 1.2%

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  6 votes, 1.1%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)
 
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  6 votes, 1.1%

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  5 votes, 0.9%

Charles Baudelaire
 
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Jim Morrison (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.7%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)
 
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Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)
 
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Anne Sexton
 
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Alfred Noyes
 
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  1 vote, 0.2%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Victor Hugo (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

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