Carl Sandburg Quotes

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

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is
romance
and big things
and real dreams
that never go smash.

The United States is, not are. The Civil War was fought over a verb. Orval Faubus don't know that. But he gonna know, he gonna know.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

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

To a man across a thousand years I offer a handshake.
I say to him: Brother, make the story short, for the stretch of a thousand years is short.

Ако нямаш как, краката са не по-лоши от крилата.

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.

Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.

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