Explore Quotes by Carl Sandburg

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

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.

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

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.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

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

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

God, let me remember all good losers.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

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

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere

I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.