Top 73 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

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 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.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

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

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

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

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