Carl Sandburg

"I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass."

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

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

"I have always been ahead of my time."

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

"The people will live on."

"Slayer of the winter—bringer of the spring."

"I sing the body electric."

"Where the roots of private profit are deep and mighty, a flux of national power and direction will inevitably follow."

"All my life I have been a rebel, but I shall try to be less so when I am dead."

"There is a place in the human heart for everything that happens to the human heart."

"To work for six days only is to change the nature of sandwiches."

"The fog comes on little cat feet."

"Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win."

"These times have a way of showing who the real friends are."

"I have loved colors as I have loved sounds and words."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."

"The answers to life's questions are sometimes found in the stars."

"I learned to speak all about wind and how it comes and where it goes."

"Do not become a slave to anything."

"There is no greater thing than love."

"Time is the greatest gift you can give to someone."

"All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain."

"I have known dust storms over the prairie where the sky all day is that yellowish gray the color of the old flour sacks when they've been out in the rain."

"The people is a mule."

"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."

"I want my body burned when I die."

"Some say the sun rises. Others know it only rolls around."

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

"The greatest homemade money-maker of today is the one who goes to the library."