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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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More quotes by Carl Sandburg
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
Carl Sandburg
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
Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
Carl Sandburg
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
Carl Sandburg
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Carl Sandburg
The people know what the land knows.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
Carl Sandburg
I am! I have come through! I belong!
Carl Sandburg
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
Carl Sandburg
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
Carl Sandburg
For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
Carl Sandburg
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
Carl Sandburg
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