Carl Sandburg

"The photograph is poetry's rival and its ally."

"To work is to pray."

"A liar will steal anything except blame."

"In the heyday of my youth not yet having come to years of discretion I was not wont to equivocate."

"I have learned that friends are sometimes better than family."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

"Where can I find a friend? I've lost the way."

"Money is power in motion."

"I have always wanted to be a scientist, an artist, and a good person."

"The atom is the invisible door to the visible world."

"Chicago, city of the big shoulders."

"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

"I feel the rhythm of the universe in my bones."

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another."

"The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear."

"Courage is when you are scared but you do it anyway."

"History is a bucket of ashes."

"Do you know the secret of the truly happy? It is a clear conscience or none at all."

"There is always a Somebody who did it Before."

"I am the window between two worlds."

"Music is the language of memory."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"I have fingers and I can count. I have eyes and I can see. I have a soul and I can feel."

"To see if a thing can be done is already half of the doing."

"There is a place where time stands still."

"The greatest gift is patience."

"I understand you don't need to see me to know I am here."

"There is beauty in the struggle and triumph in the pain."

"Change is the only permanence."

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."