Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
Carl Sandburg
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
People
Monarchical
Rest
Word
Free
More quotes by Carl Sandburg
A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
Carl Sandburg
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Carl Sandburg
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
Carl Sandburg
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
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
Carl Sandburg
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Carl Sandburg
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
Carl Sandburg
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
Carl Sandburg
The people know what the land knows.
Carl Sandburg
What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
Carl Sandburg
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg
In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
Carl Sandburg
So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Carl Sandburg
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Carl Sandburg