“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.”
Anger
“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.”
FutureAll Quotes by Carl Sandburg
“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.”
Future“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
Religion“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
Poetry“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
Poetry“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
Wisdom“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Failure“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.”
Age“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Happiness“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Poetry“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
Work“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
Poetry“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
Best“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
Newyears“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”
Nature“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
Work“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.”
Work“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
Poetry“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
Respect“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
Morning