Top 73 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

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.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

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

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.

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

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

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.