“The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”

— Carl Sandburg

"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)

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American writer and editor 1878–1967

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“The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”