“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
"Prairie" (1918)
Source: Cornhuskers
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Carl Sandburg 62
American writer and editor 1878–1967Related quotes

“Someone tell me why my road
is eternally strewn with ashes.”
Source: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 20, “The Sound of the World” (p. 282)

“Cast down your bucket where you are.”
This address was a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta (1895-09-18)
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.”

“[on John McCain] I don't need a president with a bucket list!”
Kill the Messenger (2008)