Carl Sandburg Literature Quotations

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

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

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

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

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

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

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.