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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg
God, Baby, Children
Remembrance Rock ch. 2 (1948)

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

Carl Sandburg
Children, Beer, Sunday
Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Carl Sandburg
Inspirational, Baby, Children
Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

Carl Sandburg
Children, Men, Names
Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg
Art, Children, Pregnancy

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

Carl Sandburg
Children, Names, World
Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

Carl Sandburg
Children, Drinking, Simple
Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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