Quotes by Carl Sandburg

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

Beauty is the word for the deep delight of the senses.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

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

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

Peace is the way of silence and the power of quietness.

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

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave—it can be a place of danger or a place of hidden treasures.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here.

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

The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on.

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

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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

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

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

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