Quote

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

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
Happens
Going
Beforehand
Newspapers
Happen
Maybe
Tell

More quotes by Carl Sandburg

Image
Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
Carl Sandburg
Image
If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Image
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Carl Sandburg
Image
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Carl Sandburg
Image
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
Carl Sandburg
Image
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
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
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
Carl Sandburg
Image
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg