Writer Quotes by Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

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

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

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

— Carl Sandburg

“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

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

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

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

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

— Carl Sandburg