Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen Edward Steichen Portrait of Carl Sandburg and his wifeduring a moment.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

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.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

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

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.