I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Category Archive: Carl Sandburg
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
There was always the consolation that if I didn’t like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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.
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.
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.