Carl Sanburg Quotes
Quotes
Poetry“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 SanburgQuotes
Poetry“Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“Give me hunger, pain, and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, give me your shabbiest, weirdest hunger! But leave me a little love.”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Chicago: The city was hog butcher for the world, toolmaker, stacker of wheat...city of the big shoulders. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Our lives are like a candle in the wind. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ I won't take religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in summer in the summer wind. Let rain on a house roof be a song. Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Someday they will give war and nobody will come. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ My father couldn't sign his name, he made his mark on the CB&Q payroll sheet. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ There are some people who can receive a truth by no other means than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ 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 SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom if you listen. ”
Carl SanburgQuotes
Poetry“ Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. ”
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