Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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.
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.