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Famous Carl Sandburg Quotes
“Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.”
“My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.”
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.”
“a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.”
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
“Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.”
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”
“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
“All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.”
“Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.”
“There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.”
“Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.”
“The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.”
“A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.”
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.”
“There is no song to your singing.”
“What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?”
“Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.”
“A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.”