Carl Sandburg Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Inspiration, Imagination

  Carl Sandburg, Arnie Bernstein (2000). “The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928”, p.7, Lake Claremont Press

• All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Needs, Action

• Nothing happens... but first a dream.

  Carl Sandburg

  Love, Dream, Firsts

• And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dying, Trying

  Carl Sandburg (1978). “Breathing Tokens”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Science, Pounds

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Dream, Real

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Men, Stronger

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.447, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dust, Blood

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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