425 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

I speak of new cities and new peopleI tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,a sun dropped in the west.I tell you there is nothing in the worldonly an ocean of tomorrows.a sky of tomorrows.I am a brother of the cornhuskers who sayat sundown:Tomorrow is a day.”- Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

Papawhat is the moonsupposed to advertise?

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

The worn tired stars sayyou shall die early and die dirty.The clean cold stars sayyou shall die late and die clean.The runaway stars sayyou shall never die at all,never at all.

Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I tell Where storms and stars come from.

Death comes once, let it be easy.

Let us go out in the fog, John, let us roll up our raincoat collars and go on the streets where men are sneering at the kings.

Seine Kleider, die den Zweck hatten, Kälte und Hitze von ihm abzuhalten, schienen zu flüstern: Er zog uns an, während er mit seinen Gedanken ganz wo anders war.