In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning

— Carl Sandburg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

— Carl Sandburg

I speak of new cities and new people tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west.I tell you there is nothing in the world only an ocean of tomorrows.a sky of tomorrows. I am a brother of the Cornhuskers who Sadat sundown:Tomorrow is a day.”- Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

— Carl Sandburg

I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

— Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

— Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself

— Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

— Carl Sandburg

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.

— Carl Sandburg

Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I tell Where storms and stars come from.

— Carl Sandburg