I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 5
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 2
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 1
The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on. Carl Sandburg American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 1
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable. Carl Sandburg American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Carl Sandburg American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work. Carl Sandburg American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment. Carl Sandburg American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
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 American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
(Chicago) 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 American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
All politicians should have 3 hats -- one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. Carl Sandburg American Historian More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0