Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
More Quotes from Carl Sandburg:
It is the men and women, boys and girls so poured in andout all day that give the building a soul of dreams
and thoughts and memories.
Carl Sandburg
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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Take these two chisel-pals, O God.
Carl Sandburg
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
And why is love rare as a tailed comet shaking guesses out of men at telescopes ten feet long?
Carl Sandburg
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