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

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the...

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the...

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it...

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it...

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me...

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me...

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...

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus...

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus...

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...

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,...

It is the business of little minds to shrink

It is the business of little minds to shrink

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...

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

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.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

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...

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...

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.