Carl Sandburg Quotes

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.
Carl Sandburg
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
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
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
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
Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg
Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.
Carl Sandburg
There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.
Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if 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.
Carl Sandburg
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
Carl Sandburg
Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I tell Where storms and stars come from.
Carl Sandburg
The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child."So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea.
Carl Sandburg
Beware of advice—even this.
Carl Sandburg
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
Carl Sandburg
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
I speak of new cities and new peopleI tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,a sun dropped in the west.I tell you there is nothing in the worldonly an ocean of tomorrows.a sky of tomorrows.I am a brother of the cornhuskers who sayat sundown:Tomorrow is a day.”- Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers
Carl Sandburg
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
Carl Sandburg
I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.
Carl Sandburg
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all.And pile them high at GettysburgAnd pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.Shovel them under and let me work.Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.
Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
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; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words.
Carl Sandburg
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.
Carl Sandburg