Quotes By Carl Sandburg

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

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.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

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.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.