Authors Posters & Prints, “San...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers and scholars.

Ignatius Sancho
b. 1729; slave ship
d. 12-14-1780; London

Ignatius Sancho's 'Letters' are one of the earliest accounts of African slavery in English that was written by a former slave. He is the first known Afro-Briton to vote in a British election.

Ignatius Sancho quotes ~
• ...“the only intrinsic nett worth, in my possession, is Mrs. Sancho - who I can compare to nothing so properly as to a diamond in the dirt - but, my friend, that is Fortune's fault, not mine - for, had I power, I would case her in gold.”
• “I am one of those people whom the vulgar and illiberal call "Negurs."- The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience.”

George Sand (Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant)
b. 7-1-1804; Paris, France
d. 6-8-1876

George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant. She began wearing men's clothing because they wore longer and were less expensive than an aristocrat's dress, and enabled her to gain access to places in Paris that might have been denied to a woman of her social standing. She was a companion to Frederic Chopin, friends with Franz Liszt, Gustave Flaubert, Mikhail Bakunin, and actress Marie Dorval.

George Sand quotes ~
• “The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”
• “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
• “Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
• “Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”

• Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

Carl Sandburg
b. 1-6-1878; Galesburg, IL
d. 7-22-1967; Flat Rock, NC

Carl Sandburg was an American poet, historian, novelist, journalist, balladeer, biographer, and folklorist. Sandburg was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) and one for his collection The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. He described Chicago as “Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.”

Carl Sandburg quotes ~
• “A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
• “All politicians should have three hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.”
• “Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.”
• “Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
• “In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.”
• “I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”

George Santayana
b. 12-16-1863; Avila, Spain
d. 9-26-1952; Italy

George Santayana was a poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher known for his remark, ”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” from Reason in Common Sense.

FYI ~ Santayana and Wallace Stevens were friends.

George Santayana quotes ~
• “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
• “A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.”
• “An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
• “Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
• “Depression is rage spread thin.”