We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

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• Carl Sandburg:

  We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselv

• Carl Sandburg:

  When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

• Carl Sandburg:

  Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wonder

• Carl Sandburg:

  You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others yo

• Carl Sandburg:

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

• Carl Sandburg:

  The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

• Carl Sandburg:

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

• Carl Sandburg:

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

• Carl Sandburg:

  Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

• Carl Sandburg:

  To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.