Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away? Carl Sandburg More Quotes by Carl Sandburg More Quotes From Carl Sandburg There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely. Carl Sandburg lonely men believe After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars Carl Sandburg prairie sunset stars It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life Carl Sandburg rocks loneliness men Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay. Carl Sandburg decay forget people You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you. Carl Sandburg born important knows An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me." Carl Sandburg ambition heart song I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. Carl Sandburg bed trying america Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word. Carl Sandburg people When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done. Carl Sandburg tired sports night The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes. Carl Sandburg sea The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning. Carl Sandburg urges The peace of great books be for you, Carl Sandburg light book years Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. Carl Sandburg newspapers happens Come on, you Do you want to live forever? Carl Sandburg live-forever want forever Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions. Carl Sandburg butterfly bird baby An expert is a damn fool a long way from home. Carl Sandburg experts home long Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. Carl Sandburg ducks dark sky The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing. Carl Sandburg impact important culture Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. Carl Sandburg goats drinking water Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for. Carl Sandburg lasts numbers two
