Quotes by Carl Sandburg
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
I had a feeling the name Carl would mean one more Poor Swede Boy while the name Charles filled the mouth with fun and had 'em guessing.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
I made notes with a lead pencil, wrote letters and college papers with a stub steel pen dipped into a bottle of Waterman ink.
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Professor Kimble could tell of women who served 50 men in a day and night and sent their earnings to children who didn't know where the money came from.
I am an idealist. I believe in everything-I am only looking for proofs.
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.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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.
