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Carl Sandburg Quotes

American - Poet | January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

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.

Words Curious People Remember I Can

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

Myself Career See Niche Some Misty

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

Love Deep Out Then Fell Times

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

Book Now Become See Out I See

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Way Years Taken Later Elemental

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

Style Black Long Pictures Tie Seen

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.

Rejection Letters Street Right 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.

Thinking End Sitting Nothing See

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.

Fool Happy Look Back Kind See

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Men Me Know Understand Them

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

Burn Always Away Throw Like Wrote

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

Poetry Enough Guidance Here Poems

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