“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
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Famous Carl Sandburg Quotes
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
“We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.”
“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.”
“I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”
“I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
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Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“God, let me remember all good losers.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: Chicago Poems: Unabridged
“I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: Honey and Salt
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
Source: Honey and Salt
“There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.”
Source: Honey and Salt
“After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg