Carl Sandburg quotes - page 2

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. (Carl Sandburg)
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum. View quote
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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought. View quote
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Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. View quote
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When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs,he forgot the copperheads and the assassin . . .in the dust, in the cool tombs. View quote
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. View quote
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Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. View quote
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you. View quote
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. (Carl Sandburg)
Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers. View quote
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. View quote
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Look out how we use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots. View quote
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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. View quote
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Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love. View quote
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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone. View quote
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The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth. The people take the earth as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope. Who else speaks for the Family of Man? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. (Carl Sandburg)
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. View quote
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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits. View quote
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. View quote
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win. View quote
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