Carl Sandburg - Man Quotes

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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Carl Sandburg
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Carl Sandburg
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.

Carl Sandburg
The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.

Carl Sandburg
The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?

Carl Sandburg
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought.

Carl Sandburg
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Carl Sandburg
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

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

Carl Sandburg
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

Carl Sandburg
Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

Carl Sandburg