Quotes from Carl Sandburg

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.

Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

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.

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

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

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

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

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

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner.

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

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

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

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.