More From Carl Sandburg
- "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
- "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
- "When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on."
More In Poetry
- "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."― John Ruskin
- "Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."― James Joyce
- "Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers."― James Broughton