Way Quotes by Carl Sandburg

8 Way quotes by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg’s grounded, plain‑spoken style appears in eight short reflections on the Way. His words carry the rhythm of everyday life, delivering straightforward wisdom in a compact form.

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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

Carl Sandburg

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

Carl Sandburg

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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger…

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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it…

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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on…

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Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted

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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments…

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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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