Carl Sandburg Quotes

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.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.

Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.

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

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.

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

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

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

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

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.

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