Quotes By Carl Sandburg

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

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.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.