Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

"“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”"
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"“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”"
Carl Sandburg
"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
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Carl Sandburg
"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on."
Carl Sandburg
"We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough."
Carl Sandburg
"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
Carl Sandburg
"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
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg
"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."
Carl Sandburg
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Carl Sandburg
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
Carl Sandburg
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
Carl Sandburg
"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor."
Carl Sandburg
"To be a good loser is to learn how to win."
Carl Sandburg
"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
Carl Sandburg
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
Carl Sandburg
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
Carl Sandburg
"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
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
Carl Sandburg
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder."
Carl Sandburg
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