The People, Yes Quotes

“Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong
and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.
Tell him to be different from other people
if it comes natural and easy being different.
Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives.
Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural.
Then he may understand Shakespeare
and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov,
Michael Faraday and free imaginations
Bringing changes into a world resenting change.
He will be lonely enough
to have time for the work
he knows as his own.”
― Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.”
― Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes

“A tough will counts. So does desire.
So does a rich soft wanting.
Without rich wanting nothing arrives.”
― Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes

“Stocks are property, yes
Bonds are property, yes
Machines, land, buildings are property, yes
A job is property,
no nix, nah, nah”
― Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes