Quotes by Carl Sandburg

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

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

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

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

"To be a good loser is to learn how to win."

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

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."

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

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

"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder."

"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor."

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

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

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."

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