Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. ”

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

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. ”

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

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ”

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ”

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. ”

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

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

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. ”