Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.

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

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

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 for you.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.