Carl Sandburg Quotes

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Words, Remember, Living

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg

Career, Niche, Filling

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

Thinking, Become, Off

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

Age, Woman, Treat

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

Book, Become, Coming

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

Taken, Later, Elemental

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

Long, Happen, Old

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

Good, Made, Try

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

Happen, Why, After

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

Long, Black, Seen

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

Religion, Won, Except

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

Two, Rejection, Off

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

Poetry, Understand, Written

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

End, Nothing, Thinking

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg

Happy, Fool, Often

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Made, Why

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg

Night, Through, Destiny

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg

Greatest, Cunning, None

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg

Time, Help, Read

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Sometimes, Wild

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg

Two, Before, Since

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Enough, Here

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Girl, Writing

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
Carl Sandburg

Actually, Wondering, Enjoyed

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg

Forget, Remember, Others

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 6, 1878

Died: July 22, 1967

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