... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily c…

- Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

- Carl Rakosi

Friends are not made, but recognized.

- Carl Rakosi

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a f…

- Carl Rakosi