Carl Sandburg Quotes


36 quotes:

"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?"
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"Revolt and terror pay a price,/ Order and law have a cost."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Freedom Quotes
"The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Culture Quotes
"I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Books And Reading Quotes
"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Birth Quotes
"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."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: Anger Quotes
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Babies Quotes
"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes French Philosopher Quotes
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"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."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Past Quotes
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
Author: Sandburg Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Birth Quotes

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