Carl Sandburg Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June. Honey and Salt

2. Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Honey and Salt

3. Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

4. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

5. Gather the stars if you wish it soGather the songs and keep them.Gather the faces of women.Gather for keeping years and years.And then...Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.Let the stars and songs go.Let the faces and years go.Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

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

7. Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

8. Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

9. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

10. Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

11. Under the summer rosesWhen the flagrant crimsonLurks in the duskOf the wild red leaves,Love, with little hands, Comes and touches youWith a thousand memories,And asks youBeautiful, unanswerable questions.