Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
70 Quotes
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
Carl Sandburg
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Carl Sandburg
"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."
Carl Sandburg
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
Carl Sandburg
"Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
Carl Sandburg
"The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now."
Carl Sandburg
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air."
Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment."
Carl Sandburg
"1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes."
Carl Sandburg
"I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."
Carl Sandburg
"Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in."
Carl Sandburg
"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
"Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence."
Carl Sandburg
"Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder."
Carl Sandburg
"There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere."
Carl Sandburg
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
Carl Sandburg
"Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders."
Carl Sandburg
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