Carl Sandburg Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Carl Sandburg quotes, Carl Sandburg sayings, and Carl Sandburg proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

A father sees his son nearing manhood. / What shall he tell that son? / 'Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.' / And this might stand him for the storms. Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first we dream. Carl Sandburg
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. Carl Sandburg
The birds who go on singing to their mates in peace, war, peace. 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 all over and try again and see how it comes out this time. Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. Carl Sandburg
Over the steak and onions not a word was said of his deep days and nights as a dynamiter. Carl Sandburg
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. Carl Sandburg
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles, Climbs a ladder, yells a joke to somebody in the crowd, And then fixes a yellow button one inch west And follows the yellow button with a black button one inch west. Carl Sandburg
Bury me in the North Atlantic. / A fog there from Iceland will be a murmur in gray over me and a long deep wind sob always. Carl Sandburg
Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. Carl Sandburg
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. Carl Sandburg
The fog comes / on little cat feet. / It sits looking / over harbor and city / on silent haunches / and then moves on. 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
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. 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
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must. Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. 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. Carl Sandburg
There was a high majestic fooling / Day before yesterday in the yellow corn. Carl Sandburg
Some of the ears are bursting. / A white juice works inside. / Cornsilk creeps in the end and dangles in the wind. / Always--I never knew it any other way-- / The wind and the corn talk things over together. / And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn / Talk things over together. Carl Sandburg
Some of the ears are bursting. / A white juice works inside. / Cornsilk creeps in the end and dangles in the wind. / Always--I never knew it any other way-- / The wind and the corn talk things over together. / And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn / Talk things over together. Carl Sandburg
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. Carl Sandburg
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days. Carl Sandburg
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Carl Sandburg
A book is never a masterpiece it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. Carl Sandburg