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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hats #into #out #politicians #pull

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#about #closing #door #during #guess

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #like #off #onion #peel

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#doubt #i #liquor #party #truly

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#joy #keep #out #reach #runs

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hippopotamus #me #mud #soar #wallow

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#boulder #bush #deep #dig #gentle

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#language #never #no respect #people #polite

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#book #dead #genius #man #masterpiece