Carl Sandburg Quotes

Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
American Poet
Born: Jan 6, 1878
Died: Jul 22, 1967
About Go Life Man Me You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Carl Sandburg
Wisdom You Laughter Defeat Every Back Venture Mistaken Listen
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. Carl Sandburg
Life Giving Every Those Dangers Willing Only Fail Cheer Were Behind Blunder Us Who
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. Carl Sandburg
Strange People Words Remember Few Living Thousand Thousand Years Only Spoken Dead Years Years Ago Curious English English People Now
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. Carl Sandburg
Man Become Field Thinking Eye Had Idea Advertising Been Off Might Keeping
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. Carl Sandburg
Book Become Out See Beautifully How Coming Infected Now
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. Carl Sandburg
Rejection Corner Later Those Station Brooks Poems Wrote Read Editors Years Off Sent Them Who Agreed Letters Street Right Rejected Two
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. Carl Sandburg
Nothing Thinking Books Would See About Study Particular Hall End Sitting Happen Room
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. Carl Sandburg
Happy Fool Back Kind Kinds See Had Look Been Often Being Many
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. Carl Sandburg
Time Only Poets Scholars Read Dictionary Help Earlier
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written. Carl Sandburg
Book Think Written Till Up Get Title
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. Carl Sandburg
Me Writing Black Girl Hair Pretty Poetry Go Midnight Poor
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