The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
Carl Sandburg

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Carl Sandburg

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

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg

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

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

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg

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

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

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