The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

7.14 Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, first Viscount Samuel) 1870-1963
A library is thought in cold storage.
‘A Book of Quotations’ (1947) p. 10
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or
later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on
which it has been built.
‘Romanes Lecture’ (1947) p. 14
7.15 Carl Sandburg 1878-1967
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders.
‘Chicago’ (1916)
When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs,
he forgot the copperheads and the assassin...
in the dust, in the cool tombs.
‘Cool Tombs’ (1918)
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
‘Fog’ (1916)
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
‘Grass’ (1918)
Why is there always a secret singing
When a lawyer cashes in?
Why does a hearse horse snicker
Hauling a lawyer away?
‘The Lawyers Know Too Much’ (1920)
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
‘Prairie’ (1918)
I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on the way.
‘Incidentals’ (1907) p. 8
Little girl...Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.