Carl Sandburg Quotes
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
(Incidentals, 1904)
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
A man must find time for himself.
I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on myway.
Each man pictures his hell or heaven different.
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
There are men who can't be bought.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
The strong win against the weak.
The strong lose against the stronger.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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.
