Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

— Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

— Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

— Carl Sandburg

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words.

— Carl Sandburg

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

— Carl Sandburg

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

— Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

— Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

— Carl Sandburg

One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men. Some he had seen weeping as they folded burnt and shot-pierced battle flags and laid them on the stacked arms of surrender. As he told his troops his own grief he tried to give them hope to rebuild out of the poverty and ashes to which many would return. Gordon would never forget a Kentucky father who lost two sons, one dying for the North, the other for the South. Over the two graves of his soldier boys the father set up a joint monument inscribed "God knows which was right.

— Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

— Carl Sandburg