By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

— Carl Sandburg

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer Winslet rain on a house roof be a singlet the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

— Carl Sandburg

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say goodbye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say goodbye.

— Carl Sandburg

Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.

— Carl Sandburg

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

— Carl Sandburg

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

— Carl Sandburg

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she is candid with herself and with the world.

— Carl Sandburg

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

— Carl Sandburg