Carl Sandburg Quotes

American - Poet January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

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

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

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.

Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Carl Sandburg

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

Carl Sandburg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg