Carl Sandburg Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Carl Sandburg quotes, Carl Sandburg sayings, and Carl Sandburg proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar. Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. Carl Sandburg
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg
The machine, yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. Carl Sandburg
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. Carl Sandburg
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds. Carl Sandburg
A roustabout hunched on a coal wagon goes by, icicles drip on his hat rim / sheets of ice wrapping the hunks of coal / the caravanserai a gray blur in slant of rain. / Let us nudge the steam radiator with our wool slippers and write poems of Launcelot,/ the hero, and Roland, the hero, and all the olden golden men who rode horses in the rain. Carl Sandburg
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. Carl Sandburg
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her. Carl Sandburg
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. Carl Sandburg
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. Carl Sandburg
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all. Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. Carl Sandburg
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather. Carl Sandburg
Dreams in the dusk, only dreams closing the day and with the day’s close going back to the gray things, the dark things, the far, deep things of dreamland. Carl Sandburg
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. Carl Sandburg
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
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. Carl Sandburg
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg
Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time / Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in white. Carl Sandburg
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. Carl Sandburg
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. they flickered out saying: “it was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds. Carl Sandburg
They love the sea, / Men who ride on it / And know they will die / Under the salt of it Carl Sandburg