Carl Sandburgin a sentence
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Carl Sandburg wrote: "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg = U.S. writer best remembered for his poetry in free verse (1878-1967)
- CARL SANDBURG, AS FEATURED IN THE 1950S SERIES.† (source)
- Known as a "people's poet," CARL SANDBURG was a voice of the workingman of industrial America.† (source)
- These were heard alongside an astonishing array of famous names, including ex-presidents Hoover and Truman, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, popular actors such as Dick Powell and Barbara Stanwyck, sports figures such as baseball Hall of Famers Bobby Doerr and Jackie Robinson, literary giants such as Thomas Mann and Carl Sandburg, and a slew of Nobel laureates, including Albert Einstein.† (source)
- Tom produced a folded paper from his pocket and read aloud, pausing at intervals so that Amory could see that it was free verse: "So Walter Arensberg, Alfred Kreymborg, Carl Sandburg, Louis Untermeyer, Eunice Tietjens, Clara Shanafelt, James Oppenheim, Maxwell Bodenheim, Richard Glaenzer, Scharmel Iris, Conrad Aiken, I place your names here So that you may live If only as names, Sinuous, mauve-colored names, In the Juvenalia Of my collected editions."† (source)