Carl Sandburg

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ”

Nothing happens unless first we dream. ”

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. ”

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. ”

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ”

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ”

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ”

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ”

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends. ”

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. ”