Song Quotes by Carl Sandburg

9 Song quotes by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg presents nine short reflections on Song, each echoing his folksy, rhythmic cadence. Though modest in number, the selection offers a clear sense of his connection between music and everyday life.

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There is no song to your singing.

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“Music is any sound you want to go on and on.”

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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

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My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and…

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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song…

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I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of…

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Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping…

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

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Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and…

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

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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

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Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention…

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

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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

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There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

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The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

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“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that…

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

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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

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My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

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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…

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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

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