Facts about Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between January 6, 1878 and July 22, 1967.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful.
Our collection contains 62 quotes who is written / told by Carl, under the main topics: Motivational, Poetry, Time.
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Famous quotes by Carl Sandburg (62)
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on"
"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor"
"I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this"
"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"
"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child"
"There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them"
"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"
"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born"
"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"
"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way"
"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out"
"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"
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence"
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"
"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"
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude"
"We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written"
"Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her"
"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me"
"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds"
"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"
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago"
"I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty"
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter"
"Nothing happens unless first we dream"
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment"
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring"
"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud"
"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man"
"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake"
"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure"
"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"
"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building"
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends"
"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"
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder"
"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"
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away"
"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"
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"
"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"
"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"
"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman"
"I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct"
"I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read"
"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"
"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth"
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help"
"There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it"
"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"
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen"
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world"
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way"
"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it"
"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"
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way"
"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"
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect"
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard"
"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on"
"To be a good loser is to learn how to win"
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