American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died (excerpt)
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"All will go
And one day
We will hold
Only the shadows."
— Carl Sandburg, from “Losses”
" You never come back.
I say good-by when I see you going in the doors,
The hopeless open doors that call and wait
And take you then for—how many cents a day?
How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers?
I say good-by because I know they tap your wrists,
In the dark, in the silence, day by day,
And all the blood of you drop by drop,
And you are old before you are young.
You never come back."
— Carl Sandburg, “Mill-Doors”
"I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts."
— Carl Sandburg, from “Autumn Movement” (via proustitute)
Carl Sandburg photographed by Edward Steichen
Carl Sandburg
