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45 Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings
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45 Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 6 January 1878. Died: 22 July 1967 |
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg
Down
Fence
Love
Neighbor
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Biscuits
Poetry
Synthesis
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
Baby
Go
God
Life
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
Goes
Hands
Language
Rolls
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Carl Sandburg
Asking
Dance
Echo
Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
Myself
Poetry
Some
Understand
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
Come
Give
Nobody
Sometime
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg
Actions
Doomed
Equivalent
Failure
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
Becomes
Book
Dead
Genius
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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
About
Against
Anger
Directed
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Carl Sandburg
Admire
Desiring
Happiness
Secret
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg
Awake
Born
Die
First
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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
Careful
Coin
Determine
How
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Carl Sandburg
Boulder
Bush
Deep
Dig
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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
Awake
Eyes
Morning
Open
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
Colossal
Language
Never
People
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
America
Creative
Discover
Greatest
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg
Cunning
Greatest
None
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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
Done
Grammar
Life
Made
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Carl Sandburg
Am
Going
Idealist
Know
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
Been
Best
Came
Life
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
Dream
First
Happens
Nothing
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
Any
Except
His
Man
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
Back
Defeat
Every
Laughter
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg
Calling
Easy
Enough
Girl
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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
Behind
Blunder
Cheer
Dangers
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg
Career
Definite
Filling
Misty
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Carl Sandburg
Deep
Fell
Love
Out
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg
Beautifully
Become
Book
Coming
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
Friends
Good
Judgment
Learned
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg
Bum
Either
Going
Writer
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg
Dictionary
Earlier
Help
Poets
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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.
Carl Sandburg
Always
Away
Burn
Consolation
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Carl Sandburg
Good
How
Learn
Loser
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg
Book
Get
Think
Till
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Carl Sandburg
Layer
Life
Like
Off
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
Friend
Lonesome
Moon
Talk
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg
Hands
Joy
Keep
Out
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
Away
How
Made
Phantom
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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
After
Damn
Die
Go
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg
Birth
Child
Commanding
Give
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
About
Blow
Destiny
Night
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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.
Carl Sandburg
Eagle
Hippopotamus
Me
Mud
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg
Agree
Feeling
Loves
Man
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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
Along
Always
Brought
Came
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