425 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captivein the universe.

Get off this estate.""What for?""Because it's mine.""Where did you get it?""From my father.""Where did he get it?""From his father.""And where did he get it?""He fought for it.""Well, I'll fight you for it.

Presents are delivered from the sky,in every package a prize, a chance,to choke, to suffocate, to forget,yes to forget every last word ever spoken ofman higher in the scale than animal creation,the gorilla and the tiger being mere beastswhile man has shrines, altars, lights,books awarding him personal immortality,books not yet banned nor burned.

God, let me remember all good losers.

The one-eyed mollusc on the sea-bottom, feathered and luminous, is my equal in what he and I know of star clusters not yet found by the best of star-gazers.

The moon is a cadaver and a dusty mummy and a damned rotten investment.

What of the Athenian last year on whose bosoma committee hung a medal to say to the worldhere is a champion heavyweight poet?He stood on a two-masted schoonerand flung his medal far out on the sea bosom.“And why not?Has anybody ever given the ocean a medal?Who of the poets equals the music of the sea?And where is a symbol of the peopleunless it is the sea?

Shall the squid have praise or blame for being a squid?Shall the bird have compliments for being born with wings?

I'd live in the fields on hard corn for a just cause.Yes, for a just cause I'd live in the fieldsOn hard corn.