“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.”
Society
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
Poetry“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Time“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
Newyears“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
Poetry“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
Poetry“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Happiness“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
Poetry“I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.”
Trust“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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
War“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“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
Respect“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
Poetry“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”
Nature“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
Poetry“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
Religion“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
Funny“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“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Failure