Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet: "When a nation goes down ... one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from"

American Minute ^ | July 22, 2020 | Bill Federer

[Perseverando]

"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us,

I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God.

I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision,"

stated poet Carl Sandburg in an interview with Frederick Van Ryn of This Week Magazine (January 4, 1953, p. 11.)

Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, to Swedish immigrants who worked on the railroad.

After 8th grade, Carl Sandburg left school, borrowed his father's railroad pass, and traveled the country as a hobo.

Carl Sandburg volunteered for military service, was sent to Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War, and then attended college on a veteran's bill.

Carl Sandburg wrote children's fairytales, called Rootabaga Stories, and mused of his wanderings in American Songbag.

Carl Sandburg wrote in Remembrance Rock (1948, ch. 2, p. 7):

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

He continued:

"A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life.

If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby.

[Perseverando]

Time for another great American (and world) history lesson from American Minute.

[knarf]

[ought-six]

And the Democrats are hell bent on erasing our past. God damn them all to hell!

[sauropod]

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