Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

— Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

— Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

Gather the stars if you wish it so

— Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

— 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

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

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

— Carl Sandburg

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

— Carl Sandburg

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows. We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

— Carl Sandburg

Hog Butcher for the World, City of the Big Shoulders.

— Carl Sandburg

The fog comes on silent haunches, and then moves on.

— Carl Sandburg

I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.

— Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

— Carl Sandburg

When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

— Carl Sandburg

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, Go to it, O jazzmen.

— Carl Sandburg

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

— Carl Sandburg

The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man.

— 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

Look out how you use proud words. They wear long boots, hard boots.

— Carl Sandburg

The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked, "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

— Carl Sandburg

The people will live on. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

— Carl Sandburg

The people know the salt of the sea Who else speaks for the Family of Man?

— Carl Sandburg

Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.

— Carl Sandburg

Man is a long time coming. There are men who can't be bought.

— Carl Sandburg

If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …

— Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

— Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

— Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— 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

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

— Carl Sandburg

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

— 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

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

— Carl Sandburg