There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors,… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
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 Copy Share
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
