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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  • The people will live on.
    The learning and blundering people will live on.
    They will be tricked and sold and again sold.
    And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
    The People, Yes (1936)
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  • The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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  • The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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  • There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
    In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • 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.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
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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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  • There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
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  • They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
    Chicago l. 6 (1916)
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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.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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  • To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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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.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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  • Under the summer roses
    When the flagrant crimson
    Lurks in the dusk
    Of the wild red leaves,
    Love, with little hands,
    Comes and touches you
    With a thousand memories,
    And asks you
    Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
    Under the Harvest Moon (1916)
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • 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.
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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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  • We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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  • When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
    Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7
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  • When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into
    the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and
    the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.
    Cool Tombs (1918)
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