“The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
Variant: Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Source: The Complete Poems
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Carl Sandburg 62
American writer and editor 1878–1967Related quotes

“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
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The Wheel on the School (1954)

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