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
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.