Carl Sandburg Quotes

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Carl Sandburg

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 6, 1878

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Carl Sandburg

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

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

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Carl Sandburg

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg