Explore Quotes by Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

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

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

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

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

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

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

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

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.

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.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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.

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

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.

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

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