Carl August Sandburg – amerykański poeta, historyk, biograf, powieściopisarz, balladysta i folklorysta pochodzenia szwedzkiego; autor biografii Abrahama Lincolna, Mary Todd Lincoln oraz dwóch autobiografii. Jego znanym dziełem jest tomik Wiersze z Chicago.
„Republika to marzenie. Nic się nie spełni, jeśli nie jest wpierw marzeniem.”
The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg: Revised and Expanded Edition http://books.google.pl/books?id=bCSu8UHz9EUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, s. 282.
"Egoism" as quoted by Amy Lowell, "Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917)
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
"The People, Yes" (1936)
“Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.”
The People, Yes http://books.google.com/books?id=bCSu8UHz9EUC&q=%22Man's+life+A+candle+in+the+wind+hoar+frost+on+stone%22&pg=PA509#v=onepage (1936)
On America, in Remembrance Rock (1948), epilogue, Ch. 2, p. 1001.
“The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”
This line appears in section 94 of "The People, Yes" (1936), but that section contains many common proverbs and expressions not original to Sandburg which he is merely quoting within the poem, including this one.
Misattributed
“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
Quoted as Sandburg in Stop Whining! Start Selling!: Profit-Producing Strategies for Explosive Sales Results (2003) by Jeff Blackman, but without citation of original source; this is elsewhere attributed to Antoine de Saint Exupéry, but also with no original sources cited.
Disputed
“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1990) by Meic Stephens
Interview with Frederick Van Ryn, This Week Magazine (January 4, 1953), p. 11. Sandburg previously used these words at a rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City (October 28, 1952), praising Adlai E. Stevenson during the latter's 1952 presidential campaign. Reported in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson (1955), vol. 4, p. 175.
“The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”
"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 448
“The United States is, not are.”
The Civil War was fought over a verb. Orval Faubus don't know that. But he gonna know, he gonna know.
Comments at the centennial celebration of the Lincoln-Douglas debates; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, Oct. 7, 1958. Quoted in Herbert Mitgang, "Again—Lincoln v. Douglas", The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 19, 1958, pp. 26-27.
