Carl Sandburg - Life Quotes

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Carl Sandburg
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. I was sure there are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. I could safely declare, I am an idealist. A Parisian cynic says "I believe in nothing. I am looking for clues." My statement would be : I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs.

Carl Sandburg
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

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His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

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The street cars swing at a curve,
The middle class passengers witness low life.
The car windows frame low life all day in pictures.

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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.

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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

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Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

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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