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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Written by Carl Sandburg
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Written by Carl Sandburg
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Written by Carl Sandburg
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Written by Carl Sandburg
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Written by Carl Sandburg
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.
Written by Carl Sandburg
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Written by Carl Sandburg
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Written by 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.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Written by Carl Sandburg
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Written by Carl Sandburg
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Written by Carl Sandburg
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Written by Carl Sandburg
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Written by Carl Sandburg
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Written by Carl Sandburg
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Written by 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.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Written by Carl Sandburg
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Written by 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.
Written by Carl Sandburg
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Written by Carl Sandburg

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