#u

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#joy #keep #out #reach #runs

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hippopotamus #me #mud #soar #wallow

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#born #die #first #man #may

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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#answer #arithmetic #blue #blue sky #comes

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#boulder #bush #deep #dig #gentle

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#language #never #no respect #people #polite

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#book #dead #genius #man #masterpiece

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blunder #cheer #dangers #every #fail

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#fell #i #love #out #several