Quote

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.

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
Keep
Men
Signs
Conformity
Rebellion
Marvelous
Reading

More quotes by Carl Sandburg

Image
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
Carl Sandburg
Image
A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
Carl Sandburg
Image
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg
Image
People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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
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
Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
Carl Sandburg
Image
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Carl Sandburg
Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
Carl Sandburg