Carl Sandburg - Work Quotes

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work —
I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

Carl Sandburg
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

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
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

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

Carl Sandburg
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg