Carl Sandburg Quotes
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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.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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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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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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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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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
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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.
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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.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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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.
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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.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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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.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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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.
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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.