Carl Sandburg
  • When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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

  • I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

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

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