Carl Sandburg Quotes about Running

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

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

Carl Sandburg

Happiness, Running, Hands

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

Carl Sandburg

Beautiful, Running, Nature

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.433, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

Carl Sandburg

Running, Fingers

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

Carl Sandburg

Running, Dream, Real

Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation