Carl Sandburg Quotations

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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Poetry]

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Poetry]

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Poetry]

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	more quotations on [Poetry]

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Poetry]

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Nature]

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [War]

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Conformity]

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Dreams]

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Politics]

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Religion]

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Money]

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Courage]

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Math]

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Math]

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Society]

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Language]

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Time]

A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Feminism]

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
	- Carl Sandburg	more quotations on [Babies]

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