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
Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.
The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.