Carl Sandburg Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Love Yourself, Literature

  "The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg".

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Inspiration, Imagination

  Carl Sandburg, Arnie Bernstein (2000). “The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928”, p.7, Lake Claremont Press

• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dance, Writing, Echoes

• 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

  Cheer, Giving, Literature

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Christian Inspirational, Literature

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Girl, Writing, Hair

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Single, America, Creative

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time‎" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 448), 1977.

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Children, Pregnancy

• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Being Happy, Looks, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Synthesis

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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

  Carl Sandburg

  New Year, Party, Doubt

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.66, University of Illinois Press

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Poetry Is

• Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, Cities, Differences

• Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

  Carl Sandburg

  Girl, Calling, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Blow, Night, Destiny

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.156, University of Illinois Press

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Respect, Ocean, Sea

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Consolation, Ifs

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Class, Textbooks

• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Writing, People

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Wonder, Enjoyed

• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ties, Long, Black

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Thinking, Titles

• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Men, Genius

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