Poet · American · 1878 – 1967 · 74 quotes
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg
Poet · American · 1878 – 1967
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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 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.
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
