Carl Sandburg Quotes About Life

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  • Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  • Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  • Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

    "The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg".
  • I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

    Incidentals (1907) p. 8
  • Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

  • I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  • Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

    Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.
  • All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  • Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

    Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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