The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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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...

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.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

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...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

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...

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of...

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of...

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.

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

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when...

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.