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
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no 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 American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg American Poet More Carl Sandburg Quotes 0