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Carl Sandburg Quotes

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker Picture Quote #1

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone Picture Quote #1

Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for Picture Quote #1

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers Picture Quote #1

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child Picture Quote #1

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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters Picture Quote #1

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten Picture Quote #1

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time Picture Quote #1

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . Picture Quote #1

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder Picture Quote #1

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And those who say, I’ll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water Picture Quote #1

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn’t live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it Picture Quote #1

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night Picture Quote #1

Give me hunger,O you gods that sit and giveThe world its orders.Give me hunger, pain and want,Shut me out with shame and failureFrom your doors of gold and fame,Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!But leave me a little love,A voice to speak to me in the day end,A hand to touch me in the dark roomBreaking the long loneliness Picture Quote #1

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on Picture Quote #1

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen Picture Quote #1

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends Picture Quote #1

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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth Picture Quote #1

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way Picture Quote #1

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep Picture Quote #1

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away Picture Quote #1

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance Picture Quote #1

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All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten (Carl Sandburg Quotes) The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . . (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder (Carl Sandburg Quotes) And those who say, I’ll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn’t live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) 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 Quotes) Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Give me hunger,O you gods that sit and giveThe world its orders.Give me hunger, pain and want,Shut me out with shame and failureFrom your doors of gold and fame,Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!But leave me a little love,A voice to speak to me in the day end,A hand to touch me in the dark roomBreaking the long loneliness. (Carl Sandburg Quotes) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen (Carl Sandburg Quotes) I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends (Carl Sandburg Quotes) I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth (Carl Sandburg Quotes) I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away (Carl Sandburg Quotes) Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance (Carl Sandburg Quotes)

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