Carl Sandburg quotes - page 5

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)
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. View quote
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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. View quote
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Time says hush by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all. View quote
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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home. View quote
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Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes. View quote
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It is the business of little minds to shrink. View quote
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Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions. View quote
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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. View quote
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The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing. View quote
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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. (Carl Sandburg)
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of theunknown and the unknowable. View quote
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In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows. View quote
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What is there more of in the world than anything else Ends. View quote
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I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion. View quote
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POETRY A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog. View quote
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In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon. View quote
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. View quote
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There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere. View quote
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as a rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect. View quote
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in. (Carl Sandburg)
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. View quote
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I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. View quote
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Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder. View quote
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing? View quote
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