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

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never...

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you...

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you...

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten...

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten...

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

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

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

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

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly...

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly...

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to...

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to...

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I...

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I...

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what...

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...