I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Carl Sandburg Quotes

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon...

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

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...

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems...

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems...

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...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a...

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...

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This...

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This...

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...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and...

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and...

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of...

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of...

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes...

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes...

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and...

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class...

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class...

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...