32 Quotations by Carl Sandburg
- 1. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- 2. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you ...
- 3. I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
- 4. I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through ...
- 5. I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
- 6. I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
- 7. I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
- 8. I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but ...
- 9. I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- 10. I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
- 11. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
- 12. Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
- 13. Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- 14. One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
- 15. Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- 16. Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- 17. Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
- 18. Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- 19. Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work
- 20. Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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