I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg

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

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg