Carl Sandburg Quotes about Literature

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

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

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.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

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

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

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.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

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

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.

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

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.