Quote

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Carl Sandburg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
Writer
Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
Political
People
Ordered
Awaken
Asleep
Revolution
Dies
Death

More quotes by Carl Sandburg

Image
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
Carl Sandburg
Image
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
Image
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
Carl Sandburg
Image
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
Carl Sandburg
Image
If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
Carl Sandburg
Image
God, let me remember all good losers.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
Carl Sandburg
Image
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
Carl Sandburg