Classic Quotes by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet and biographer

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

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

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

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

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And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

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