Carl Sandburg Quotes

• Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

  Carl Sandburg

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• I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

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• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in

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• Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

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• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

• We read Robert Browning’s poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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• We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

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• We don’t have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

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• 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.

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• There was always the consolation that if I didn’t like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

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

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• There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

  Carl Sandburg

• There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

  Carl Sandburg

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

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

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• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

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

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Carl Sandburg (106)

Birth:	6th January, 1878
Death:	22nd July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Poet, Writer

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Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He was an American poet, writer, and journalist. who won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.  President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."  He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. Later he wrote poetry, history, biographies, novels, children's literature, and film reviews.

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