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Carl Sandburg Quotes: "It is the business of little minds to shrink."

It is the business of little minds to shrink.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon."

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower."

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams."

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes."

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.




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

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go."

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "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."

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.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer."

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.




Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Beware of advice-even this."

Beware of advice-even this.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must."

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?"

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read."

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies."

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it."

There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass."

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite."

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”"

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it."

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back."

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes."

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child."

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"

What if they gave a war and nobody came?



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night."

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "The past is a bucket of ashes"

The past is a bucket of ashes



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "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 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.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it."

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.



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

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



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.



Carl Sandburg Quotes: "Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves."

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.