Carl Sandburg

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. ”

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. ”

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her. ”

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. ”

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building. ”

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. ”

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. ”

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. ”

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. ”

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