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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
— Sandra Cisneros
The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. — Carl Sandburg
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. — Carl Sandburg
Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.
— Carl Sandburg
The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.
— Carl Sandburg
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
— Carl Sandburg
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
— Carl Sandburg
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
— Carl Sandburg
People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
— Carl Sandburg
Night from a railroad car window
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light. — Carl Sandburg
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light. — Carl Sandburg
The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
— Carl Sandburg
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
They are in tune and step
with constellations of universal law. — Carl Sandburg
They are in tune and step
with constellations of universal law. — Carl Sandburg
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
— Carl Sandburg
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
— Carl Sandburg
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
— Carl Sandburg
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
— Carl Sandburg
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
— Carl Sandburg
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
— Carl Sandburg
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
— Carl Sandburg
Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.
— Carl Sandburg
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
— Gore Vidal
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
— Carl Sandburg
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
— Gore Vidal
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
— Carl Sandburg
The impact of television on our culture is ... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.
— Carl Sandburg
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
— Carl Sandburg
I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
— Carl Sandburg
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow ... — Carl Sandburg
Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow ... — Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
— Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens... but first a dream
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
— Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
— Carl Sandburg
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
— Carl Sandburg
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
— Carl Sandburg
Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
— Carl Sandburg
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted
— Carl Sandburg
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself
— Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
— Carl Sandburg
There is no song to your singing.
— Carl Sandburg
The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
— Carl Sandburg
Death comes once, let it be easy.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
— Carl Sandburg
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
— Carl Sandburg
Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
— Carl Sandburg
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
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again. — Carl Sandburg
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
— Carl Sandburg
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
— Carl Sandburg
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
— Carl Sandburg
There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
— Carl Sandburg
The shovel is the brother to the gun.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
— Carl Sandburg
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
— Carl Sandburg
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
— Carl Sandburg
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
— Carl Sandburg
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it
— Carl Sandburg
Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
— Carl Sandburg
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
— Carl Sandburg
Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
— Carl Sandburg
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
— Carl Sandburg
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
— Carl Sandburg
In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.
— Carl Sandburg
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
— Carl Sandburg
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
— Carl Sandburg
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
— Carl Sandburg
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
— Carl Sandburg
The people know what the land knows.
— Carl Sandburg
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible.
— Van Wyck Brooks
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
— Carl Sandburg
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
— Carl Sandburg
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other. — Carl Sandburg
Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other. — Carl Sandburg
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
— Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
— Carl Sandburg
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
— Carl Sandburg
The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
— Carl Sandburg