Carl Sandburg Quotes

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Carl Sandburg

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 6, 1878

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.

Carl Sandburg

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Carl Sandburg

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Carl Sandburg

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Carl Sandburg

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Carl Sandburg