Top 73 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

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

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

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

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

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

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 doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

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

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