The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite. Carl Sandburg More Quotes by Carl Sandburg More Quotes From Carl Sandburg Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors. Carl Sandburg faithmenwar The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor Carl Sandburg catnaturemoving Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Carl Sandburg airwritinganimal Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. Carl Sandburg literaturebeing-happylooks Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. Carl Sandburg autumnwindfall All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write. Carl Sandburg writingtryingbook I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song. Carl Sandburg playerbaseballsong Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work. Carl Sandburg wartwoyears Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg miraclegoes-onbaby A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. Carl Sandburg deceitliarslying The fog comes on little cat feet. Carl Sandburg fogcatfeet Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love. Carl Sandburg paindoorsgiving The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away. Carl Sandburg generositygivenhands And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash. Carl Sandburg realdreamrunning Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak. Carl Sandburg lipswisdommen God, let me remember all good losers. Carl Sandburg let-meloserremember A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. Carl Sandburg menorderreality I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. Carl Sandburg fogcareersliterature My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. Carl Sandburg sittingbookthinking Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. Carl Sandburg enjoyedliteraturewonder
