425 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.