Carl Sandburg Quotes on Man (17 Quotes)



    It is the men and women, boys and girls so poured in and
    out all day that give the building a soul of dreams
    and thoughts and memories.

    Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

    Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.



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

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

    Time says hush by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

    The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
    can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.

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

    It came over them every man is crucified
    only once in his life and the law of humanity dictates
    silver nails be used for the job.

    Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as a rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

    Yes, go find the men of clean hands one day and see the life, the memory, the love they have, to stay longer than the plunging sea wets the shores or the fires heave under the crust of the earth.



    And why is love rare as a tailed comet shaking guesses out of men at telescopes ten feet long?

    Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.


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