One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Quote by Carl Sandburg
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes
- Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
- Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
- Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
- One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Best Quotes
- Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- A house is built with bricks, and love with words is too.
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- Our whole society is instantaneous.
- Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
- I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
- Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.