Quotes By Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.