Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away? Carl Sandburg More Quotes by Carl Sandburg More Quotes From Carl Sandburg Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. Carl Sandburg butterfly white wings Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full. Carl Sandburg boxes empty enough We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. Carl Sandburg teaching literature two There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go. Carl Sandburg wilderness let-it-go To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass. Carl Sandburg fool glasses rooms Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits. Carl Sandburg purple yesterday two All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker. Carl Sandburg learning writing life Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words. Carl Sandburg use long looks I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. Carl Sandburg writing book people Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace. Carl Sandburg immortality silence personality It is the business of little minds to shrink. Carl Sandburg being-strong perseverance strength A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. Carl Sandburg clothes liars lying Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. Carl Sandburg baby inspirational children Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. Carl Sandburg saxophone banjos long To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.” Carl Sandburg revolution political people There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams. Carl Sandburg stronger dream men Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought. Carl Sandburg brother winning men I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs. Carl Sandburg proof idealist believe The past is a bucket of ashes Carl Sandburg buckets ashes past I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends. Carl Sandburg judgment good-friend trust
