Carl Sandburg 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.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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

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

Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

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

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

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Carl Sandburg

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

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

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Carl Sandburg

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Carl Sandburg

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

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

Carl Sandburg