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Famous Carl Sandburg Quotes
“It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.”
“I am! I have come through! I belong!”
“The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.”
“Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.”
“Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.”
“And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.”
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.”
“I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.”
“There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere”
“The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.”
“The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.”
“I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.”
“The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”
“What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.”
“To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.”
“I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.”
“There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.”