{"author":"Carl Sandburg","author_id":"Carl+Sandburg","total_quotes":77,"quotes":[{"text":"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["admire","without","secret "],"id":1865,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"Love your neighbor as yourself  but don't take down the fence.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["life"],"id":1984,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["lost","down","nation "],"id":18402,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"Gather the stars if you wish it soGather the songs and keep them.Gather the faces of women.Gather for keeping years and years.And then...Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.Let the stars and songs go.Let the faces and years go.Loosen your hands and say good-bye.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["poetry"],"id":28817,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["man","never","mouth "],"id":36376,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["future","past","moving "],"id":48745,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["memories"],"id":49057,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["music","silence"],"id":49871,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["writing","girl","hair "],"id":53866,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"},{"text":"Nothing happens unless first we dream.","author":"Carl Sandburg","tags":["dream","happens","nothing"],"id":64059,"author_id":"Carl+Sandburg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}