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Carl Sandburg - From the Ambition category:
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Architecture category:
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Awareness category:
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Courage category:
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Dissatisfaction category:
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Dreams category:
Nothing happens unless first we dream. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Drunkenness category:
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Expectation category:
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Experience category:
We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Failure category:
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Fashion category:
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Freedom category:
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Future category:
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Gender category:
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Genius category:
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Happiness category:
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Hope category:
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Idealism category:
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Integrity category:
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Journey category:
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Joy category:
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Language category:
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Life category:
Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Life category:
-Remembrance Rock...
Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Loneliness category:
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Loneliness category:
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Masters category:
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. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Memory category:
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Memory category:
I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Mistakes category:
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Music category:
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Mysteries category:
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Optimism category:
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Passion category:
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Politics category:
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Prayer category:
God, let me remember all good losers. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Procrastination category:
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Profession category:
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Questions category:
It is necessary... for a man to go away by himself... to sit on a rock... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?' (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Questions category:
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it 'til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Religion category:
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Religion category:
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Risk category:
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Sadness category:
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Shock category:
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Silence category:
Tell no man anything, for no man listens /
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Solitude category:
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Strength category:
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Studio category:
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Time category:
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Titles category:
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Tradition category:
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Understanding category:
There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Windows category:
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Winning category:
To be a good loser is to learn how to win. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Words category:
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. (Carl Sandburg)
Carl Sandburg - From the Writing category:
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. (Carl Sandburg)
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