Carl Sandburg quotes - page 4

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. (Carl Sandburg)
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. View quote
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. View quote
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. View quote
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. View quote
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash. (Carl Sandburg)
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music. View quote
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. View quote
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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. View quote
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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June. View quote
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Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak. View quote
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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. View quote
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The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man. View quote
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends. (Carl Sandburg)
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written. View quote
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. View quote
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. View quote
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. View quote
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