Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburgwas an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems, Cornhuskers, and Smoke and Steel. He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life",...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1878
CountryUnited States of America
And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.