Quotes By Author: carl sandburg

“These wheels within wheelsThese leaves folded in leavesThese wheeling windsand winding leavesThose sprocketsfrom those seedsThis spiral shootingfrom that rainfall-What does a turning earthsay to its axis?How should a melon say thanksOr a squash utter blessings?”

“What is a stratosphere fourteen miles fromthe earth or a sunken glass house onthe sea-bottom amid fish and feather-stars unless a bet that man can shoveon beyond yesterday’s record of manthe hoper, the believer?”

“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”

“Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.”

“Maybe the morning sun is a five-cent yellow balloon,And the evening stars the joke of a God gone crazy. Maybe the mothers of the world, And the life that pours from their torsal folds— Maybe it’s all a lie sworn by liars, And a God with a cackling laughter says:“I, the Almighty God, I have made all this, I have made it for kaisers, czars and kings.”

“Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.”