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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
- Carl Sandburg
#Myself
#Poetry
#Some
#Understand
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
- Carl Sandburg
#Language
#Never
#People
#Respect
#Sea
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- Carl Sandburg
#Man
#Mouth
#Never
#Religion
#Who
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
- Carl Sandburg
#Enough
#Guidance
#Here
#Needed
#Poetry
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
- Carl Sandburg
#Back
#Defeat
#Every
#Laughter
#Wisdom
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
- Carl Sandburg
#Black
#Hair
#Me
#Poetry
#Poor
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
- Carl Sandburg
#Away
#Go
#How
#Poetry
#Why
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
- Carl Sandburg
#Deep
#Dig
#Gentle
#Nature
#Split
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
- Carl Sandburg
#Friends
#Good
#Judgment
#Learned
#Trust
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
- Carl Sandburg
#Awake
#Eyes
#Morning
#Open
#Society
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Carl Sandburg
#Doomed
#Failure
#Human
#Principle
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
- Carl Sandburg
#Down
#Fence
#Love
#Neighbor
#Yourself
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
#Come
#Give
#Nobody
#War
#Will
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
- Carl Sandburg
#Eagle
#Hippopotamus
#Me
#Mud
#Soar
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- Carl Sandburg
#Hands
#Language
#Slang
#Up
#Work
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
- Carl Sandburg
#Going
#I Am
#Idealist
#Know
#Way
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
- Carl Sandburg
#Baby
#Go
#God
#Life
#Opinion
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
- Carl Sandburg
#Best
#Life
#Me
#Things
#Unexpected
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- Carl Sandburg
#Admire
#Happiness
#Secret
#Without
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
#Life
#Love
#Onion
#Sometimes
#Time
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
- Carl Sandburg
#Good
#How
#Learn
#Loser
#Motivational
#Win
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
#About
#Against
#Anger
#More
#Nothing
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
#Careful
#Life
#People
#Time
#Will
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Carl Sandburg
#Friend
#Lonesome
#Moon
#Space
#Talk
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
#Always
#Down
#Lost
#Nation
#Sight
#Society
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Carl Sandburg
#Biscuits
#Poetry
#Synthesis
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
- Carl Sandburg
#Closing
#Door
#Look
#Moment
#Poetry
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg
#Asking
#Dance
#Echo
#Poetry
#Shadow
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
- Carl Sandburg
#Doubt
#New Year's
#Party
#Wild
#Without
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.
- Carl Sandburg
#Future
#Live
#Moving On
#Past
#Tomorrow
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
- Carl Sandburg
#Dream
#Dreams
#First
#Happens
#Nothing
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