I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

- Carl Sandburg

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

- Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

- Carl Sandburg

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

- Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

- Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

- Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

- Carl Sandburg

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.

- 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