Carl Sandburg

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

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder…

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you…

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away…

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts…

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and…

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits…

I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth…

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring…

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

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come…

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after…

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your…

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on…

We read Robert Browning’s poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems…