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Carl Sandburg Quotes | Quotes said by Carl Sandburg

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #1

    Passers-by

    Passers-by,
    Out of your many faces
    Flash memories to me
    Now at the day end
    Away from the sidewalks
    Where your shoe soles traveled
    And your voices rose and blent
    To form the city’s afternoon roar
    Hindering an old silence.

    Passers-by,
    I remember lean ones among you,
    Throats in the clutch of a hope,
    Lips written over with strivings,
    Mouths that kiss only for love,
    Records of great wishes slept with,
    Held long
    And prayed and toiled for:

    Yes,
    Written on
    Your mouths
    And your throats
    I read them
    When you passed by.


  • Carl Sandburg Quote #2

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #3

    A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo plants, don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable. A baby is very modern. Yet it is also the oldest of the ancients. A baby doesn't know he is a hoary and venerable antique — but he is. Before man learned how to make an alphabet, how to make a wheel, how to make a fire, he knew how to make a baby — with the great help of woman, and his God and Maker.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #4

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #5

    A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #6

    A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #7

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #8

    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 Quote #9

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #10

    Beware of advice—even this.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #11

    By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #12

    Come clean with a child heart
    Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
    Let rain on a house roof be a song
    Let the writing on your face
    be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #13

    Gather the stars if you wish it so
    Gather the songs and keep them.
    Gather the faces of women.
    Gather for keeping years and years.
    And then...
    Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.
    Let the stars and songs go.
    Let the faces and years go.
    Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #14

    Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #15

    I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
    I remember all you forget.
    I will die as many times
    as you make me over again.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #16

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #17

    I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #18

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #19

    I speak of new cities and new people
    I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
    I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,
    a sun dropped in the west.
    I tell you there is nothing in the world
    only an ocean of tomorrows.
    a sky of tomorrows.
    I am a brother of the cornhuskers who say
    at sundown:
    Tomorrow is a day.”

    - Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #20

    I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #23

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #24

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #25

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #26

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #27

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #28

    Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #29

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

  • Carl Sandburg Quote #30

    Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.

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