Carl Sandburg Quotes

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

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

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
- Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
- Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
- Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
- Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

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

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on the way.
- Carl Sandburg

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
- Carl Sandburg

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

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
- Carl Sandburg

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Carl Sandburg

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
- Carl Sandburg