Carl Sandburg Quotes - Page 10

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• 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

  Girl, Stories, Littles

  Carl Sandburg, “Crabapple Blossoms”

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• Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lovers, Loser, Ifs

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Drinking, Simple

  Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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• I been a wanderin'
  Early and late,
  New York City
  To the Golden Gate
  An' it looks like
  I'm never gonna cease my
  Wanderin'.

  Carl Sandburg

  New York, Cities, Looks

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Helping, Poet, Scholar

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Years, People, Strange

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hard Work, Would Be, Fields

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

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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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ties, Long, Black

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

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• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Style, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.138, University of Illinois Press

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• I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Memories, Break, Claws

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Stars, Heart

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Believe, Men

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

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• Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Animal, Air

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fog comes on little cat feet.

  Carl Sandburg

  Cat, Fog, Feet

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Urges

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• Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

  Carl Sandburg

  Newspapers, Happens

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• If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

  Carl Sandburg

  Pride, America, Ifs

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• 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."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dust, Blood

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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• Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

  Carl Sandburg

  Keys, Flying, Wish

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The peace of great books be for you,
  Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
  Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Light, Years

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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