Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.”

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

“Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.”

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

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”

“Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.”

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

“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”

“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”

“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.”