Author Profile
Carl Sandburg
1878 – 1967 • American • Poet
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesArithmetic 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
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.— Carl Sandburg
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.— Carl Sandburg
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