Carl Sandburg Eye Quotations

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.