Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you. — Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about — Carl Sandburg
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. — Carl Sandburg
I had taken a course in ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and — Carl Sandburg
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see — Carl Sandburg
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the — Carl Sandburg
I have in later years taken to euclid, whitehead, bertrand russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. — Carl Sandburg
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. — Carl Sandburg
I decided I would go to chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. — Carl Sandburg
I couldn’t see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. — Carl Sandburg
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing — Carl Sandburg
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven’t told the girl you are smitten with her. — Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of — Carl Sandburg
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. — Carl Sandburg
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. — Carl Sandburg