top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Joy quotes
"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
"For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy."
"You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer."
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg
"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
bottom of page