I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Carl Sandburg Quotes

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard...

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard...

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.

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

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

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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

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

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...

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...

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look...

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look...

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs...

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs...

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 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...

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

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,...

Failures are like skinned knees; painful, but superficial.

Failures are like skinned knees; painful, but superficial.

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...

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...

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...