"Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into …"

"If my City of the Big Shoulders / Stormy, husky, bawling / Yipping, yapping, yessing, crawling / Would only stop gigg…"

"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may h…"

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

"Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, C…"

"Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stor…"

"I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for mysel…"

"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on."

"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work — I am the grass; I cover all. And…"

"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving…"