Carl Sandburg Quotes

• 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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• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.

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• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

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• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

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• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

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• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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• Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

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• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

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

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• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

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

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• I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.

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• I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.

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• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

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

About

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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