Carl Sandburg

"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with books and more time in the railways, the factories, the streets."

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

"I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots."

"I learned that all men are equal."

"A nation, the making of it, is the time of a few men."

"I may not know what is beautiful, but I know what I love."

"I have always been ahead of my time. I invented the future."

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

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

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

"The fog comes on little cat feet."

"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible sheets that paint pictures and print words."

"There is a place where the sidewalk ends."

"To be a good loser is to learn how to win."

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

"I learned early that crying out loud was a way to pay for emotional neglect."

"Even the great get the blues sometimes."

"The people, yes, they are alive, they are alive."

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling as the brain empties."

"The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it."

"I came from the people, and I have never lost touch with the people."

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves."

"Steel is stronger than stone, but time is the strongest of all."

"The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first we dream."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"I have seen sunsets like colored praise."

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

"Back of the big newspaper is often a man who runs the whole thing."

"I sing the body electric."