Quotes by : Carl Sandburg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves....

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

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

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

I speak of new cities and new peopleI tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.I tell you yesterday is....

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning

The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here....

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.