Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. -Carl Sandburg Wisdom
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 Time
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 Movingon
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. -Carl Sandburg Respect
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. -Carl Sandburg Poetry
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. -Carl Sandburg Poetry
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. -Carl Sandburg Society
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 Anger
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. -Carl Sandburg Life
