One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg quote 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.
Carl Sandburg quote I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg quote Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg quote Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg quote 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.
Carl Sandburg quote A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg quote A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg quote Biography
Author and poet, 1878 - 1967
