I am an idealist. I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Carl Sandburg Quotes

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...

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...

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to...

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write...

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

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

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

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,...

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

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

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

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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

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

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after...

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after...

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and...

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and...

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...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

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 off one layer at a time and sometimes...

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

Life sucks, and then you die.

Life sucks, and then you die.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give...

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give...