Carl Sandburg - Love Quotes

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Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

Carl Sandburg
I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.

Carl Sandburg
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg
There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

Carl Sandburg
Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

Carl Sandburg
Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

Carl Sandburg
Love your neighbour as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Carl Sandburg
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Carl Sandburg
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

Carl Sandburg