Carl Sandburg Men Quotations

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of 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.

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

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

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

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

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

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.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.

Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?