Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”

“I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.”

“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.”

“I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.”

“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”

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

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

“Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.”

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

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.”