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
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.