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Carl Sandburg Quote: “There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “The people know what the land knows.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn’t have picked a better companion.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn’t learned a thing I didn’t know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I learned you can’t trust the judgment of good friends.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “To know silence perfectly is to know music.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “We read Robert Browning’s poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don’t want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “We don’t have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “It is the business of little minds to shrink.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Music is any sound you want to go on and on.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “Man is born with rainbows in his heart and you’ll never read him unless you consider rainbows.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “There was always the consolation that if I didn’t like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “I’ll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.”
Carl Sandburg Quote: “All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.”
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