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Facts about Carl Sandburg SummaryCarl Sandburg was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between January 6, 1878 and July 22, 1967. He/she became 89 years old.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.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Anne Baxter, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Ngo Dinh Diem, Margaret Lee Runbeck, George Matthew Adams, Joe Namath, Adlai Stevenson, John Barrymore, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, George S. Patton, Thornton Wilder, Casey Stengel, Vince Lombardi Famous quotes by Carl Sandburg (62)   "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"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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 had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter"
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment"
"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 man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake"
"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 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"
"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"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
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