Carl Sandburg quote: "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me workI am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at GettysburgAnd pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this?Where are we now?I am the grass. Let me work."

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about ...
CARL SANDBURG

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ...
CARL SANDBURG

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow i...
CARL SANDBURG

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the...
CARL SANDBURG

If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if ...
CARL SANDBURG

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
CARL SANDBURG

The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
CARL SANDBURG

Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come.
CARL SANDBURG

Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why ...
CARL SANDBURG

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as...
CARL SANDBURG

A baby is Gods opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
CARL SANDBURG

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are th...
CARL SANDBURG

The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
CARL SANDBURG

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
CARL SANDBURG

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pul...
CARL SANDBURG

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
CARL SANDBURG

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
CARL SANDBURG

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
CARL SANDBURG

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

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
CARL SANDBURG

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awak...
CARL SANDBURG

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of...
CARL SANDBURG

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

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

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
CARL SANDBURG

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

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window an...
CARL SANDBURG

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

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no re...
CARL SANDBURG

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
CARL SANDBURG

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but ...
CARL SANDBURG

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
CARL SANDBURG

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
CARL SANDBURG

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
CARL SANDBURG

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunch...
CARL SANDBURG

Hog butcher for the world,
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation'...
CARL SANDBURG

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

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
CARL SANDBURG

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
CARL SANDBURG

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place....
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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will ...
CARL SANDBURG

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
CARL SANDBURG

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
CARL SANDBURG

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes...
CARL SANDBURG

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will ...
CARL SANDBURG

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
CARL SANDBURG

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

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBURG

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
CARL SANDBURG

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
CARL SANDBURG

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
CARL SANDBURG

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window an...
CARL SANDBURG

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you...
CARL SANDBURG

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work
CARL SANDBURG

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG

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 an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where...
CARL SANDBURG

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
CARL SANDBURG

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

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
CARL SANDBURG

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent hau...
CARL SANDBURG

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed chi...
CARL SANDBURG

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.
CARL SANDBURG

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any ...
CARL SANDBURG

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen du...
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
CARL SANDBURG

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

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across...
CARL SANDBURG

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And...
CARL SANDBURG

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
CARL SANDBURG

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
CARL SANDBURG

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my d...
CARL SANDBURG

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the Eng...
CARL SANDBURG

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a searc...
CARL SANDBURG

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence
CARL SANDBURG

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

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty...
CARL SANDBURG

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep
CARL SANDBURG

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't w...
CARL SANDBURG

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where...
CARL SANDBURG

The greatest cunning is to have none at all
CARL SANDBURG

All politicians should have 3 hats -- one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pu...
CARL SANDBURG

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is p...
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
CARL SANDBURG

The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and t...
CARL SANDBURG

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard
CARL SANDBURG

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
CARL SANDBURG

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we fin...
CARL SANDBURG

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigge...
CARL SANDBURG

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she t...
CARL SANDBURG

One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken...
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air
CARL SANDBURG

(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nat...
CARL SANDBURG

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to
CARL SANDBURG

I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world i...
CARL SANDBURG

Soundtrack City Chicago.
CARL SANDBURG

Sandburg's retelling of Lincoln's attendance at an evangelist rally led by Peter Cartwright in 1846,...
CARL SANDBURG

The machine yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time, never watches the foreman, never talks ba...
CARL SANDBURG

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recen...
CARL SANDBURG

It is the business of little minds to shrink
CARL SANDBURG

Revolt and terror pay a price,/ Order and law have a cost.
CARL SANDBURG

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

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

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere
CARL SANDBURG

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow i...
CARL SANDBURG

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
CARL SANDBURG

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
"It was ...
CARL SANDBURG

Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.
CARL SANDBURG

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wonderi...
CARL SANDBURG

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
CARL SANDBURG

The republic is a dream, Nothing happens unless first a dream
CARL SANDBURG

What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends
CARL SANDBURG

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any ...
CARL SANDBURG

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhaust...
CARL SANDBURG

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
CARL SANDBURG

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
CARL SANDBURG

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it i...
CARL SANDBURG

Why is there always a secret singing when a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker haulin...
CARL SANDBURG

If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she ...
CARL SANDBURG

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little abou...
CARL SANDBURG

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?
CARL SANDBURG

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And t...
CARL SANDBURG

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
I remember all you forget.
I will die as ma...
CARL SANDBURG

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and on...
CARL SANDBURG

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and so...
CARL SANDBURG

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...
CARL SANDBURG

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

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
CARL SANDBURG

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
CARL SANDBURG

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
CARL SANDBURG

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the am...
CARL SANDBURG

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...
CARL SANDBURG

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
CARL SANDBURG

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems thems...
CARL SANDBURG

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
CARL SANDBURG

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of pa...
CARL SANDBURG

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
CARL SANDBURG

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a co...
CARL SANDBURG

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being th...
CARL SANDBURG

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experime...
CARL SANDBURG

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
CARL SANDBURG

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or bur...
CARL SANDBURG

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
CARL SANDBURG

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
CARL SANDBURG

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what woul...
CARL SANDBURG

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBURG

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. Bu...
CARL SANDBURG

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
CARL SANDBURG

Life's golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the fami...
CARL SANDBURG

I noticed the ball a lot more in play during the preseason tournament.
LARRY SANDBURG

There's a lot of pressure taking over a successful program. We hope to win and have fun. Practice is...
LARRY SANDBURG

Pete is teaching fundamentals. The girls have come a long way already.
LARRY SANDBURG

Sure, I worry when we fall behind.
LARRY SANDBURG

The last three or four games we have come out of the box pretty fast. Hopefully we can keep it up. T...
LARRY SANDBURG

That wasn't the same team we played at the beginning of the year. But hitting it like that, we were ...
LARRY SANDBURG

When you've had as many wins as we've had, our confidence has been up. But they've got a great team....
LARRY SANDBURG

This will help us mentally. To play this bad defensively and win helps.
LARRY SANDBURG

They have a real good team. So did Sickles. We played real well in this tournament. It was fun.
LARRY SANDBURG

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation...
CARL SAGAN

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...
CARL SAGAN

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to sav...
CARL SAGAN

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there&#...
CARL SAGAN

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
CARL REINER

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...
CARL JUNG

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL JUNG

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for...
CARL JUNG

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far ...
CARL JUNG

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
CARL JUNG

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
CARL JUNG

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL JUNG

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I co...
CARL JUNG

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL JUNG

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
CARL JUNG

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL JUNG

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
CARL JUNG

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL JUNG

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
CARL JUNG

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered...
CARL JUNG

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL JUNG

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL JUNG

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL JUNG

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
CARL JUNG

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG

Carl Sandburg

Share:

Related

More Carl Sandburg