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"45 Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 January 1878. Died: 22 July 1967 | Poet | Biographer | Journalist | Editor |

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Down Fence Love Neighbor
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Biscuits Poetry Synthesis
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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.

Goes Hands Language Rolls
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Come Give Nobody Sometime
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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.

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.

About Against Anger Directed
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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.

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.

Careful Coin Determine How
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

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.

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.

Colossal Language Never People
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

America Creative Discover Greatest
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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.

Done Grammar Life Made
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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.

Been Best Came Life
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Dream First Happens Nothing
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Any Except His Man
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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.

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.

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.

Career Definite Filling Misty
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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.

Beautifully Become Book Coming
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Friends Good Judgment Learned
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

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.

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.

Always Away Burn Consolation
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Good How Learn Loser
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Book Get Think Till
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Layer Life Like Off
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Friend Lonesome Moon Talk
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Hands Joy Keep Out
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Along Always Brought Came
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Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings