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Carl Sandburg Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There is an eagle in me that wants to soar."

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?"

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."

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




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings."

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor 	and city on silent haunches and then moves on."

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Nothing happens unless first we dream."

Nothing happens unless first we dream.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent."

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers."

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul."

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets."

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution."

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "To be a good loser is to learn how to win."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows."

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell"

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

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



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

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds."

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Our lives are like a candle in the wind."

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The fog comes on little cat feet."

The fog comes on little cat feet.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders."

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now."

All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June."

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me.""

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot."

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors."

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head."

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Now is the time. It is never too late to start something."

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen."

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "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."

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.