Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

"Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds."
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"Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds."
Carl Sandburg
"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
Carl Sandburg
"The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to."
Carl Sandburg
"So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child."So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea."
Carl Sandburg
"Beware of advice—even this."
Carl Sandburg
"By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul."
Carl Sandburg
"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
Carl Sandburg
"Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning"
Carl Sandburg
"I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep."
Carl Sandburg
"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
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg
"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work."
Carl Sandburg
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
Carl Sandburg
"Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words."
Carl Sandburg
"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by."
Carl Sandburg
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
Carl Sandburg
"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one."
Carl Sandburg
"Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you."
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
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