There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

— Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

— Carl Sandburg

Time is a sand pile we run our fingers in.

— Carl Sandburg

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 on you.

— Carl Sandburg

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 on you.

— Carl Sandburg

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 on you.

— Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

— Carl Sandburg

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

— Carl Sandburg

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

— Carl Sandburg

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

— Carl Sandburg