Carl Sandburg Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  Carl Sandburg

  Single, America, Creative

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time‎" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 448), 1977.

• Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Strong, Brother

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.449, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Men, Solitude

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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