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Carl Sandburg quotes

American Poet January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967

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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. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only..."
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars"
After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a..."
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "The shovel is brother to the gun."
The shovel is brother to the gun. Carl Sandburg
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. Carl Sandburg
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other. 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
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Carl Sandburg
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg quote: "We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is..."
We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. Carl Sandburg
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. Carl Sandburg
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. Carl Sandburg

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