Failures are like skinned knees; painful, but superficial.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Failure Quotes

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the...

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the...

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when...

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when...

It is healthful and invigorating to fall many times through life, if you get up...

It is healthful and invigorating to fall many times through life, if you get up...

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus...

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus...

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.