Carl Sandburg Quotes

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always.
If the music dies down there is a silence.
Almost the same as the movement of music.
To know silence perfectly is to know music.

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

The past is a bucket of ashes

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.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

«عشقِ یک کارگر»

ﺑﺎﺭﻫﺎ ﺑﻪ ﺧﻮﺩﮐﺸﯽ ﻓﮑﺮ ﮐﺮﺩه‌ام
ﭼﺮﺍ ﮐﻪ ﻣﻦ ﯾﮏ ﮐﺎﺭﮔﺮ ﺳﺎﺩه‌ﺍﻡ
ﻭ ﺗﻮ ﺁﻥ ﺯﻧﯽ،
ﮐﻪ ﺩﻭﺳﺖ‌ﺩﺍﺭﺩ ﺷﻮﻫﺮﺵ ﭘﺰﺷﮏ ﺑﺎﺷﺪ.

ﺍﻣﺎ ﺑﺎﺯ ﻫﻢ ﺍﻫﻤﯿﺘﯽ نمی‌دﻫﻢ
ﻭ ﺣﺘﯽ ﻣﺤﮑﻢ‌ﺗﺮ ﺍﺯ ﻗﺒﻞ
ﺁﺟﺮﻫﺎ ﺭﺍ ﺑﺮ ﺩﯾﻮﺍﺭ ﻣﯽ‌ﭼﯿﻨﻢ.
ﺣﺘﯽ ﺯﯾﺒﺎﺗﺮ ﺍﺯ ﭘﯿﺶ ﺁﻭﺍﺯ می‌‌خوانم
ﻭﻗﺘﯽ ﮐﻪ ﻓﺮﻗﻮﻥِ ﻣﻼﺕ ﺭﺍ ﺩﺭ ﺩﺳﺖ می‌گیرم.

ﺍﻣﺎ ﻭﻗﺘﯽ ﮐﻪ ﻧﻮﺭ ﺧﻮﺭﺷﯿﺪ ﺩﺭﺳﺖ ﺑﻪ ﭼﺸﻤﺎﻧﻢ می‌خورد
ﺍﻣﺎ ﻭﻗﺘﯽ ﮐﻪ ﻧﺮﺩﺑﺎﻥ‌ﻫﺎ ﺯﯾﺮ ﭘﺎﻫﺎﯾﻢ ﻣﯽﻟﺮﺯﻧﺪ
ﺍﻣﺎ ﻭﻗﺘﯽ ﮐﻪ ﺣﺘﯽ ﺗﺮﺍﺯﻫﺎ ﻫﻢ ﺍﺷﺘﺒﺎه می‌کنند،
ﻣﻦ ﺑﺎﺯ ﻫﻢ
ﺩﻗﯿﻘﺎ ﺑﻪ ﺗﻮ ﻓﮑﺮ می‌کنم...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.