Carl Sandburg Quotes
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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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.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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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.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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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.
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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.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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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.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man.