Quote

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

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
Introspection
Contemplation
Going

More quotes by Carl Sandburg

Image
Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg
Image
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
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
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
Carl Sandburg
Image
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
Image
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
Image
It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
Carl Sandburg
Image
The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Image
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg
Image
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg
Image
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
Carl Sandburg
Image
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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