Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

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

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

My room for books and study, or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular, to see what would happen, was at the end of a hall.

I have in later years taken to Euclid Whitehead Bertrand Russell in an elemental way.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves spits on its hands and goes to work.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring one to talk through and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring one for talking through and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.