I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg
Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg
I learned you cant trust the judgment of good friends. – Carl Sandburg
I wont take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. – Carl Sandburg
Ive written some poetry I dont understand myself. – Carl Sandburg
We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg
A baby is Gods opinion that life should go on. – Carl Sandburg
Im an idealist. I dont know where Im going, but Im on my way. – Carl Sandburg
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. – Carl Sandburg
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. – Carl Sandburg
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. – Carl Sandburg
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. – Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – 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
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. – Carl Sandburg
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg
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
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg
To be a good loser is to learn how to win. – Carl Sandburg
