425 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.

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

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

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Gather the stars if you wish it soGather the songs and keep them.Gather the faces of women.Gather for keeping years and years.And then...Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.Let the stars and songs go.Let the faces and years go.Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.