Quotes by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

American Poet

Lived from: 1878 - 1967

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 6 january 1878 Died: 22 july 1967

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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.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
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  • Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • 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.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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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.
    Chicago (1916)
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  • I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
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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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  • 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.
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  • I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
    Breathing Tokens
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
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  • Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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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.
    Primer Lessons (1922)
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • Man is a long time coming.
    Man will yet win.
    Brother may yet line up with brother:
    This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
    There are men who can't be bought.
    The People Will Live On (1936)
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  • Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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  • Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
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  • Nothing happens unless first a dream.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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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.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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