All Carl Sandburg Quotes
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg in
War
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg in
Funny
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg in
Poetry
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg in
Nature
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg in
Society
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg in
Poetry
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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