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List of Carl Sandburg Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 264 inspiring quotes by Carl Sandburg.

About Carl Sandburg

  • Born: January 6, 1878
  • Died: July 22, 1967
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Time is a great teacher, who can live without hope?
    Hope Teacher Time
    The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
    Helping Poet Scholar
    I make it clear why i write as i do and why other poets write as they do. after hundreds of experiments i decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
    Writing Style Literature
    I took to wearing a black tie known as the ascot, with long drooping ends. i had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
    Ties Long Black
    I had taken a course in ethics. i read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying i hadn't learned a thing i didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
    Taken Class Textbooks
    What of the wright boys in dayton? just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. they were man the seeker, man on a quest. money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. they threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. they proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."
    Boys Men Ideas
    Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
    Nice Math Blue
    I stayed away from mathematics not so much because i knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time i knew it would take, hours spent in a field where i was not a natural.
    Hard Work Would Be Fields
    Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
    Echoes Silence Cadence
    We read robert browning's poetry. here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
    Literature Guidance Enough
    I remember the chillicothe ballplayers grappling the long island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. and the shoulders of the chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the rock island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. and the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.
    Baseball Song Player
    You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. there are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
    Remember Forget Bedroom
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