Quotes from Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.

Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

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

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

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.

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.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

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

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

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

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

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

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

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