Quote

Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

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
Enough
Fool
Even
Brother
Much
Gets
Long
Goes
Life
Easy
House
Hallelujah
Live
Brothers
Take
Tired

More quotes by Carl Sandburg

Image
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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
Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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
Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Image
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
Carl Sandburg
Image
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
Carl Sandburg
Image
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
Carl Sandburg
Image
In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
Carl Sandburg