Quote Quote from “The Art Of Public Address (1970)” Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
Quote Quote from “The School Musician Director And Teacher Vol. 43 (1971) ” Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
Quote Quote from “Slabs Of The Sunburnt West (1922)” Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg
Quote Quote from “As You Like It (5.1) ” A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
Quote Quote from “So Be It: Or The Chips Are Down (1952)” Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide
Quote Quote from “A Poet's Advice (1958)” To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting E.E. Cummings
Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)” A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Newsweek (1949)” The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. - Sigmund Z. Engel