All politicians should have 3 hats – one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. – Carl Sandburg
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven’t told the girl you are smitten with her. – Carl Sandburg
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. – Carl Sandburg
I couldn’t see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. – Carl Sandburg
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny. – Carl Sandburg
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. – Carl Sandburg
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. – Carl Sandburg
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. – Carl Sandburg
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. – Carl Sandburg
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. – Carl Sandburg
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. – Carl Sandburg
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