Carl Sandburg Top 10 Quotes
10 | Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows. |
9 | A man must find time for himself. |
8 | Each man pictures his hell or heaven different. |
7 | Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. |
6 | I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep. |
5 |
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. |
4 |
Under the summer roses |
3 |
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys. |
2 | Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong |
1 | It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going? |