Carl Sandburg

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#drooping #ends #had #i #known

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#except #his #i #man #mouth

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#baby #go #god #opinion #should

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#myself #poetry #some #understand #written

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#books #end #hall #happen #nothing

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#been #being #fool #had #happy

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

— Carl Sandburg

#go #go away #how #made #phantom

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blow #destiny #i #night #strange

The greatest cunning is to have none at all. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#greatest #none

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#earlier #help #only #poets #read